Hi Matthias,

Sure, but i would approach it differently. Say your Status model  
looks like this:

class Status < ActiveRecord::Base
        translates :name
end

> class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
> # translates :status_id
>   belongs_to :status

        # add method to display the page status
        def status_display
                self.status ? self.status.name : '-'
        end


> end
>


Mind you this is quite slow as every time you call status_display a  
query is sent of the DB, worse case if you are not using Globalize in  
table translations. In my view what may be better is to have a status  
field string field in pages model and have it translated using .t, like:

page.status.to_s.t

Anyway, hope this helps?

Greetings,
Juergen


On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Mattias Bodlund wrote: