human readable names for columns

One case I needed to display a column name with a human readable name, in this case you can use ActiveModel::Translation.

After some searching I found there is a simple way to do this, like

class TranslatedPerson
  extend ActiveModel::Translation
end

TranslatedPerson.human_attribute_name('my_attribute')
# => "My attribute"

This also provides the required class methods for hooking into the Rails internationalization API, including being able to define a class based i18n_scope and lookup_ancestors to find translations in parent classes.

• http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveModel/Translation