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YavorIvanov

i18n and date_select exception

Reported by YavorIvanov | February 10th, 2009 @ 01:10 PM

When migrating a current project from GetText to i18n the following exception was thrown when using the date_select helper:

can't convert Symbol into String

Example:

When in your application you have set the I18n.locale to something different than "en" and you have the following simple code in your view:


<%= date_select("user_info", "birthdate") %>

You'll get the can't convert Symbol into String for the date_select helper. The problem can be rescued by giving the date_select helper order like this:


<%= date_select("user_info", "birthdate", :order => [:day,:month,:year]) %>

or by doing order in the yml file usually located at config/locales/your_lang.yml like this


date:
  formats: 
    default: ""
    long: ""
    short: ""
  order: [ :day, :month, :year ]

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  • MvE

    MvE July 7th, 2009 @ 01:31 PM

    The :order work around nicely prevents the exception from being thrown.

    In my environment (ruby 1.8.6, rails 2.3.2) the :month option results in a series of numbers (internal id's?) to be displayed, not the actual months. Do you know how I can correct this?

  • Ronald de Gunst

    Ronald de Gunst August 8th, 2009 @ 11:02 PM

    Also for ruby 1.8.7, rails 2.3.3 I get a series of numbers for :month

  • Ronald de Gunst

    Ronald de Gunst August 8th, 2009 @ 11:56 PM

    • Assigned user cleared.

    This was caused by missing translations?
    date_helper.rb returns 'translation missing: nl, date, month_names' for month_names[number]
    config/locale/nl.yml exists with the monthnames.

    From the console:

    I18n.l Date.today, :locale => :en => "2009-08-08" I18n.l Date.today, :locale => :nl I18n::MissingTranslationData: translation missing: nl, date, formats

    Stupid, stupid: it has to be config/locales, not config/locale

    Same cause for MvE?

  • MvE

    MvE August 9th, 2009 @ 01:25 PM

    • Assigned user set to “Sven Fuchs”

    Folder was already named config/locales, so unfortunately I still have the problem. But thanks for the suggestion.

  • MvE

    MvE August 9th, 2009 @ 02:06 PM

    Problem is somewhere at my end.

    When I start a clean rails 2.3.2 project and download an untouched fr.yml file, then the application displays dates correctly in English & French.

    Somehow, I'm causing the problem with projects updated from pre rails 2.3.2. Or when I add in a large block of application specific messages from the yml in an older application.

    Ensuring that spaces, rather than any hidden tab characters in the yml file, keeps the dreaded "syntax error on line x, col y" error message away during the load. Unfortunately, as soon as I get an error free load, the "can't convert Symbol into String" returns.

    Does any one know of a 'yml' validator routine, that would help me see how I'm causing the problem?

  • rbaezam

    rbaezam December 14th, 2009 @ 08:45 PM

    • Assigned user cleared.

    Hi, i had the same problem than you and i finally found a solution.

    Make sure the name is the same in all places.
    In my case, i was using the es_MX locale, but the yml file was named es.yml and the start of the file was "es-MX":
    So i changed the file name to be es_MX.yml, the start of the file to be the same "es_MX:" and make sure the line in config/environment.rb was right (config.i18n.default_locale = :es_MX). Notice that all have an underscore.

    I hope that helps to you too.

  • mcansky

    mcansky January 19th, 2010 @ 11:25 AM

    • Assigned user set to “Sven Fuchs”

    hi,

    same problem here, got numbers instead of months name,
    no luck with the fixes described earlier, so wondering if there is any news around about it ?

  • sharas

    sharas January 20th, 2010 @ 05:10 PM

    Seems, numbers are shown because helper can't find proper month names (maybe problem with defining formats?).
    Anyway this is how I solved it (pay attention to YAML layout):
    @@@ YAML

    lt:
  date:
    order: [ :year, :month, :day ]
    formats:
      default: "%Y-%m-%d"
      short: "%b %d"
      long: "%B %d, %Y"
    day_names: [Sekmadienis, Pirmadienis, Antradienis, Trečiadienis, Ketvirtadienis, Penktadienis, Sekmadienis]
    abbr_day_names: [S, P, A, T, K, Pn, Š]
    month_names: [~, Sausis, Vasaris, Kovas, Balandis, Gegužė, Birželis, Liepa, Rugpjūtis, Rugsėjis, Spalis, Lapkritis, Gruodis]
    abbr_month_names: [~, Sau, Vas, Kov, Bal, Geg, Bir, Lie, Rugs, Rugp, Spa, Lap, Gruo]

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    Example:

    When in your application you have set the I18n.locale to something different than "en" and you have the following simple code in your view:

    <%= date_select("user_info", "birthdate") %>
    You'll get the can't convert Symbol into String for the date_select helper. The problem can be rescued by giving the date_select helper order like this:

    <%= date_select("user_info", "birthdate", :order => [:day,:month,:year]) %>
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    date:
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    Example:

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    <%= date_select("user_info", "birthdate") %>
    You'll get the can't convert Symbol into String for the date_select helper. The problem can be rescued by giving the date_select helper order like this:

    <%= date_select("user_info", "birthdate", :order => [:day,:month,:year]) %>
    or by doing order in the yml file usually located at config/locales/your_lang.yml like this

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