Distance_of_time_in_words hardcoded strings should be separa

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Hi everybody.
After DHHs talk at RailsConf yesterday, it’s essential that some of
you can rectify this patch for ruby on Rails

Please help me an have a look at

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9587
Thanks!

Jesper Rønn-Jensen
blog: www.justaddwater.dk

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ActiveRecord::Errors has a placeholder (@@default_error_messages) for
messages that can be overridden.

Just the same way, the hardcoded time strings should be easily
overridden without breaking or re-implementing the logic in
distance_of_time_in_words.

This patch creates a new placeholder for the hardcoded strings:

@@time_messages = {
:less_than_x_seconds => “less than %d seconds”,
:half_a_minute => “half a minute”,
…
}

Now you are able to overwrite with

Helpers::DateHelpers::time_messages[:less_than_x_seconds] = “an
instant”

or similar. I also added some lines of documentation for overriding,
as well as ran the tests which pass.

Please

a) verify that this works for you

b) vote +1 for it

c) try it out in your environment