Humanizing Model Attributes in Rails

Just discovered this: an easy way to humanize the attributes of a model. Allows you to rename the database column name to something more reasonable. Makes for nicer, more understandable error messages back to the user.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  HUMANIZED_ATTRIBUTES = {
    :user_email => "E-mail address"
  }

  def self.human_attribute_name(attr)
    HUMANIZED_ATTRIBUTES[attr.to_sym] || super
  end

end