Forum: Rails I18n Error trying to translate a model name in a validation message

So far I've found internationalization with Rails to be a very pleasant 
experience. But I've run into trouble trying to translate model names 
and I need a little help.

Here's my fr.yml:
fr:
activerecord:
models:
person: Personne
attributes:
last_name: "Nom de Famille"

Please forgive me if the French is bad - I'm just using it as a 
bootstrap example and it's not an official translation.

Last name is a required field and when I try to save I get this error:

translation data {:person=>"Personne"} can not be used with :count => 1

And here's some more information from Rails:



Extracted source (around line #28 ): 25:
26: <% content_for :title do %>
27:   Edit Morbidity Event: <%= h(patient_name) %>
28: <% end %>
29:
30: <% content_for :tools_two do %>
31:   <%= save_buttons(@event) %>


RAILS_ROOT: /home/david/trisano-ee/webapp Application Trace | Framework 
Trace | Full Trace
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor/i18n-0.1.3/lib/i18n/backend/simple.rb:139:in 
`pluralize'
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor/i18n-0.1.3/lib/i18n/backend/simple.rb:40:in 
`translate'
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor/i18n-0.1.3/lib/i18n.rb:165:in 
`t'
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/active_record_helper.rb:197:in 
`error_messages_for'
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb:78:in 
`with_options'
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/active_record_helper.rb:192:in 
`error_messages_for'
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/app/views/morbidity_events/edit.html.erb:28:in 
`_run_erb_app47views47morbidity_events47edit46html46erb'
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/app/controllers/morbidity_events_controller.rb:141:in 
`update'
/home/david/trisano-ee/webapp/app/controllers/morbidity_events_controller.rb:123:in 
`update'

Anybody have any ideas what's going on?

Thanks in advance for the help .

Dave Christiansen
Senior Developer
Collaborative Software Initiative
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