RouteTranslator is a gem to allow you to manage the translations of your app routes with a simple dictionary format.
It started as a fork of the awesome translate_routes plugin by Raúl Murciano.
Right now it works with all the different flavours of rails 3-4 (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2).
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If you have this
routes.rb
file originally:MyApp::Application.routes.draw do namespace :admin do resources :cars end resources :cars end
The output of
rake routes.rb
would be:admin_cars GET /admin/cars(.:format) admin/cars#index POST /admin/cars(.:format) admin/cars#create new_admin_car GET /admin/cars/new(.:format) admin/cars#new edit_admin_car GET /admin/cars/:id/edit(.:format) admin/cars#edit admin_car GET /admin/cars/:id(.:format) admin/cars#show PUT /admin/cars/:id(.:format) admin/cars#update DELETE /admin/cars/:id(.:format) admin/cars#destroy cars GET /cars(.:format) cars#index POST /cars(.:format) cars#create new_car GET /cars/new(.:format) cars#new edit_car GET /cars/:id/edit(.:format) cars#edit car GET /cars/:id(.:format) cars#show PUT /cars/:id(.:format) cars#update DELETE /cars/:id(.:format) cars#destroy
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Add the gem to your
Gemfile
:gem 'route_translator'
And execute
bundle install
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Wrap the groups of routes that you want to translate inside a
localized
block:MyApp::Application.routes.draw do namespace :admin do resources :cars end localized do resources :cars end end
And add the translations to your locale files, for example:
es: routes: cars: coches new: nuevo fr: routes: cars: voitures new: nouveau
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Your routes are translated! Here's the output of your
rake routes
now:admin_cars GET /admin/cars(.:format) admin/cars#index POST /admin/cars(.:format) admin/cars#create new_admin_car GET /admin/cars/new(.:format) admin/cars#new edit_admin_car GET /admin/cars/:id/edit(.:format) admin/cars#edit admin_car GET /admin/cars/:id(.:format) admin/cars#show PUT /admin/cars/:id(.:format) admin/cars#update DELETE /admin/cars/:id(.:format) admin/cars#destroy cars_en GET /cars(.:format) cars#index {:locale=>"en"} cars_es GET /es/coches(.:format) cars#index {:locale=>"es"} cars_fr GET /fr/voitures(.:format) cars#index {:locale=>"fr"} POST /cars(.:format) cars#create {:locale=>"en"} POST /es/coches(.:format) cars#create {:locale=>"es"} POST /fr/voitures(.:format) cars#create {:locale=>"fr"} new_car_en GET /cars/new(.:format) cars#new {:locale=>"en"} new_car_es GET /es/coches/nuevo(.:format) cars#new {:locale=>"es"} new_car_fr GET /fr/voitures/nouveau(.:format) cars#new {:locale=>"fr"} edit_car_en GET /cars/:id/edit(.:format) cars#edit {:locale=>"en"} edit_car_es GET /es/coches/:id/edit(.:format) cars#edit {:locale=>"es"} edit_car_fr GET /fr/voitures/:id/edit(.:format) cars#edit {:locale=>"fr"} car_en GET /cars/:id(.:format) cars#show {:locale=>"en"} car_es GET /es/coches/:id(.:format) cars#show {:locale=>"es"} car_fr GET /fr/voitures/:id(.:format) cars#show {:locale=>"fr"} PUT /cars/:id(.:format) cars#update {:locale=>"en"} PUT /es/coches/:id(.:format) cars#update {:locale=>"es"} PUT /fr/voitures/:id(.:format) cars#update {:locale=>"fr"} DELETE /cars/:id(.:format) cars#destroy {:locale=>"en"} DELETE /es/coches/:id(.:format) cars#destroy {:locale=>"es"} DELETE /fr/voitures/:id(.:format) cars#destroy {:locale=>"fr"}
Note that only the routes inside a
localized
block are translated.In :development environment, I18n is configured by default to not use fallback language. When a translation is missing, it uses the translation key last segment as fallback (
cars
andnew
in this example).In :production environment, you should either set
config.i18n.fallbacks = false
or set up translations for your routes in every languages. -
Your I18n.locale will be set up automatically from the url param when it's available.
To disable it add this to your controller:
skip_around_filter :set_locale_from_url
You can configure RouteTranslator via an initializer or using the different environment config files.
RouteTranslator.config do |config|
config.force_locale = true
config.locale_param_key = :my_locale
end
- force_locale
Set this options totrue
to force the locale to be added to all generated route paths, even for the default locale.
Defaults tofalse
. - hide_locale
Set this options totrue
to force the locale to be hidden on generated route paths.
Defaults tofalse
. - generate_unlocalized_routes
Set this option totrue
to add translated routes without deleting original unlocalized versions.
Autosetsforce_locale=true
.
Defaults tofalse
. - generate_unnamed_unlocalized_routes
Set this option totrue
to add the behavior of force_locale, but with a named default route which behaves as if generate_unlocalized_routes wastrue
.root_path
will redirect to/en
or/es
depending on the value ofI18n.locale
.
Defaults tofalse
. - locale_param_key
The param key that will be used to set the locale to the newly generated routes.
Defaults to:locale
- host_locales
Optional hash to setI18n.default_locale
based onrequest.host
. Useful for apps accepting requests from more than one domain.
See below for more details.
If you have an application serving requests from more than one domain, you might want to set I18n.default_locale
dynamically based on which domain the request is coming from.
The host_locales
option is a hash mapping hosts to locales, with full wildcard support to allow matching multiple domains/subdomains/tlds.
Host matching is case insensitive.
When a request hits your app from a domain matching one of the wild-card matchers defined in host_locales
, the default_locale will be set to the specified locale.
Unless you specified the force_locale
configuration option to true
, that locale will be hidden from routes (acting like a dynamic hide_locale
option).
Here are a few examples of possible mappings:
RouteTranslator.config.host_locales =
{ # Matches:
'*.es' => :es, # TLD: ['domain.es', 'subdomain.domain.es', 'www.long.string.of.subdomains.es'] etc.
'ru.wikipedia.*' => :ru, # Subdomain: ['ru.wikipedia.org', 'ru.wikipedia.net', 'ru.wikipedia.com'] etc.
'*.subdomain.domain.*' => :ru, # Mixture: ['subdomain.domain.org', 'www.subdomain.domain.net'] etc.
'news.bbc.co.uk' => :en, # Exact match: ['news.bbc.co.uk'] only
}
In the case of a host matching more than once, the order in which the matchers are defined will be taken into account, like so:
RouteTranslator.config.host_locales = { 'russia.*' => :ru, '*.com' => :en } # 'russia.com' will have locale :ru
RouteTranslator.config.host_locales = { '*.com' => :en, 'russia.*' => :ru } # 'russia.com' will have locale :en
As Hash are not ordered in Ruby 1.8, use an ActiveSupport::OrderedHash instead.
If host_locales
option is set, the following options will be forced (even if you set to true):
@config.generate_unlocalized_routes = false
@config.generate_unnamed_unlocalized_routes = false
@config.force_locale = false
@config.hide_locale = false
This is to avoid odd behaviour brought about by route conflicts and because host_locales
forces and hides the host-locale dynamically.
Bring it! Send us a pull request. Don't worry about styling or small details, we are open to discussion.