# Internatiolazing columns in Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internatiolazing-columns-in-rails/194384>\
**Category:** Rails I18n\
**Created:** [September 3, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internatiolazing-columns-in-rails/194384 "2010-09-03T14:08:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![wardenik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@wardenik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wardenik)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internatiolazing-columns-in-rails/194384/1 "2010-09-03T14:08:12Z")

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Hey,

I’m a newbie with Rails and ActiveRecord so sorry for stupid question  
if it is stupid though 😉  
I have read several articles about making i18n for validation  
messages, models and stuff.  
What I want to do, is different language for the record contents  
though.  
So, by example.  
I have a table Faculty:  
id  
name\_en  
name\_es  
name\_pl

can I do that automagically with ActiveRecord and Rails?

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**Author:** ![wardenik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@wardenik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wardenik)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internatiolazing-columns-in-rails/194384/2 "2010-09-03T14:11:08Z")

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You need a plugin. I use translatable\_columns:

> **[GitHub - henrik/translatable\_columns: Provides proxies for localized columns,...](https://github.com/henrik/translatable_columns)**
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> Provides proxies for localized columns, depending on the locale set by I18n - GitHub - henrik/translatable\_columns: Provides proxies for localized columns, depending on the locale set by I18n