How to set default locale in rails

Question

How do I set the default locale in rails application.rb so I don't have to add unit every time I call the following?

number_to_currency(@course.price, unit: "£") 

Rails guides says my locale is :en-GB for the UK, but the following obviously creates an error in application.rb

config.i18n.default_locale = :en-GB

Answer 1

The rails-i18n gem contains a lot of locale configurations for Rails and en-GB is one of them. en-GB isn't included in Rails itself.

1. Add the rails-i18n gem
2. Add config.i18n.default_locale = :'en-GB' to application.rb

Answer 2

Try this:

config.i18n.default_locale = :'en-GB'