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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile b/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile index 01e3380ee4..ebc2790c3a 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ However, you would probably like to *provide support for more locales* in your a WARNING: You may be tempted to store the chosen locale in a _session_ or a _cookie_. *Do not do so*. The locale should be transparent and a part of the URL. This way you don't break people's basic assumptions about the web itself: if you send a URL of some page to a friend, she should see the same page, same content. A fancy word for this would be that you're being "_RESTful_":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer. Read more about the RESTful approach in "Stefan Tilkov's articles":http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction. There may be some exceptions to this rule, which are discussed below. -The _setting part_ is easy. You can set the locale in a +before_filter+ in the ApplicationController like this: +The _setting part_ is easy. You can set the locale in a +before_filter+ in the Application Controller like this: <ruby> before_filter :set_locale @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ One option you have is to set the locale from the domain name where your applica * It is very trivial to implement in Rails. * Search engines seem to like that content in different languages lives at different, inter-linked domains. -You can implement it like this in your +ApplicationController+: +You can implement it like this in your Application Controller: <ruby> before_filter :set_locale @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ end # 127.0.0.1 application.it # 127.0.0.1 application.pl # in your /etc/hosts file to try this out locally -def extract_locale_from_tld +def extract_locale_from_uri parsed_locale = request.host.split('.').last I18n.available_locales.include?(parsed_locale.to_sym) ? parsed_locale : nil end @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Getting the locale from +params+ and setting it accordingly is not hard; includi Rails contains infrastructure for "centralizing dynamic decisions about the URLs" in its "+ApplicationController#default_url_options+":http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000515, which is useful precisely in this scenario: it enables us to set "defaults" for "+url_for+":http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000503 and helper methods dependent on it (by implementing/overriding this method). -We can include something like this in our ApplicationController then: +We can include something like this in our Application Controller then: <ruby> # app/controllers/application_controller.rb |