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Diffstat (limited to 'actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb')
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1 files changed, 37 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb index 29a0860c00..089627a221 100644 --- a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb +++ b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb @@ -7,41 +7,54 @@ module ActionView module Helpers module TranslationHelper include TagHelper - # Delegates to <tt>I18n#translate</tt> but also performs three additional functions. + # Delegates to <tt>I18n#translate</tt> but also performs three additional + # functions. # - # First, it will ensure that any thrown +MissingTranslation+ messages will be turned - # into inline spans that: + # First, it will ensure that any thrown +MissingTranslation+ messages will + # be rendered as inline spans that: # - # * have a "translation-missing" class set, - # * contain the missing key as a title attribute and - # * a titleized version of the last key segment as a text. + # * Have a <tt>translation-missing</tt> class applied + # * Contain the missing key as the value of the +title+ attribute + # * Have a titleized version of the last key segment as text # - # E.g. the value returned for a missing translation key :"blog.post.title" will be - # <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.blog.post.title">Title</span>. - # This way your views will display rather reasonable strings but it will still - # be easy to spot missing translations. + # For example, the value returned for the missing translation key + # <tt>"blog.post.title"</tt> will be: # - # Second, it'll scope the key by the current partial if the key starts - # with a period. So if you call <tt>translate(".foo")</tt> from the - # <tt>people/index.html.erb</tt> template, you'll actually be calling - # <tt>I18n.translate("people.index.foo")</tt>. This makes it less repetitive - # to translate many keys within the same partials and gives you a simple framework - # for scoping them consistently. If you don't prepend the key with a period, - # nothing is converted. + # <span + # class="translation_missing" + # title="translation missing: en.blog.post.title">Title</span> # - # Third, it'll mark the translation as safe HTML if the key has the suffix - # "_html" or the last element of the key is the word "html". For example, - # calling translate("footer_html") or translate("footer.html") will return - # a safe HTML string that won't be escaped by other HTML helper methods. This - # naming convention helps to identify translations that include HTML tags so that - # you know what kind of output to expect when you call translate in a template. + # This allows for views to display rather reasonable strings while still + # giving developers a way to find missing translations. + # + # If you would prefer missing translations to raise an error, you can + # opt out of span-wrapping behavior globally by setting + # <tt>ActionView::Base.raise_on_missing_translations = true</tt> or + # individually by passing <tt>raise: true</tt> as an option to + # <tt>translate</tt>. + # + # Second, if the key starts with a period <tt>translate</tt> will scope + # the key by the current partial. Calling <tt>translate(".foo")</tt> from + # the <tt>people/index.html.erb</tt> template is equivalent to calling + # <tt>translate("people.index.foo")</tt>. This makes it less + # repetitive to translate many keys within the same partial and provides + # a convention to scope keys consistently. + # + # Third, the translation will be marked as <tt>html_safe</tt> if the key + # has the suffix "_html" or the last element of the key is "html". Calling + # <tt>translate("footer_html")</tt> or <tt>translate("footer.html")</tt> + # will return an HTML safe string that won't be escaped by other HTML + # helper methods. This naming convention helps to identify translations + # that include HTML tags so that you know what kind of output to expect + # when you call translate in a template and translators know which keys + # they can provide HTML values for. def translate(key, options = {}) options = options.dup has_default = options.has_key?(:default) remaining_defaults = Array(options.delete(:default)).compact if has_default && !remaining_defaults.first.kind_of?(Symbol) - options[:default] = remaining_defaults.shift + options[:default] = remaining_defaults end # If the user has explicitly decided to NOT raise errors, pass that option to I18n. |