Rails engine ActiveRecord models I18n -
i have rails app depends on separate engine (stored in vendor/engine_name ). engine has activerecord object bar : module foo class bar < activerecord::base # has attribute bar_attr end end in engine's config/locales/en.yml file, i've tried: en: activerecord: attributes: bar_attr: "test" i've tried: en: activerecord: attributes: bar: bar_attr: "test" and: en: activerecord: attributes: foo: bar: bar_attr: "test" but no matter what, when call foo::bar.human_attribute_name("bar_attr") parent app, "bar attr" (e.g. default human attribute name). note same problem occurs foo::bar.model_name.human when try translations using: en: activerecord: models: ... i'm not sure if app/engine structure relevant, i've tried above 3 en.yml formats within parent app's translations file too, no luck. what missing these mod