GLoc Validation Problems After Rails 2.1 Upgrade

When upgrading our application from Ruby on Rails 1.2.6 to Rails 2.1 we experienced some issues with the GLoc localization library.

First, we got exceptions like this one:

ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (3 for 2))

Thanks to this Rails 2.1 patch for GLoc, we were able to run our application again.

But then we noticed the application threw exceptions on some validations. Here is such an exception:

NoMethodError (undefined method `%' for :error_invalid:Symbol):
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/validations.rb:695:in `validates_format_of'

As a workaround to solve the above exceptions, we added custom messages to the following validations:

validates_inclusion_of ..., :message => l(:incl_key)
validates_exclustion_of ..., :message => l(:excl_key)
validates_format_of ..., :message => l(:form_key)

Now, GLoc seems to work with Rails 2.1!

Tagged as: GLoc, Ruby on Rails