If you're suffering from a huge de.yml
or similiar file, cry no more. Rails lets you freely organize your dictionary files in config/locales
.
My organization works like this:
-
config/locales/rails.de.yml
modified Rails boilerplate Show archive.org snapshot -
config/locales/faker.de.yml
modified Faker boilerplate Show archive.org snapshot -
config/locales/models.de.yml
model names, attribute names, assignable_value labels -
config/locales/views.de.yml
text in the GUI -
config/locales/blocks.de.yml
if you organize your CSS with BEM you can use this instead of (or together with)views.<locale>.yml
for text in the GUI -
config/locales/de.yml
various one liners that don't really fit anywhere else yet. extract lines to separate files as you see clusters of translations emerging.
Note that Rails really doesn't care if the name of the locale (e.g. de or en) appears in the file. Since the root node of each YAML tree is the locale code, it can just merge all files together.
You may need to restart your server if you add files to config/locale
.
Using subfolders
You can also use subfolders, but then you need to say in your application.rb
:
config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('config', 'locales', '**', '*.{rb,yml}')]
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2012-06-18 08:05)