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| -rw-r--r-- | railties/doc/guides/source/i18n.txt | 25 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/source/i18n.txt b/railties/doc/guides/source/i18n.txt index c9867ba0ac..76f081e0bc 100644 --- a/railties/doc/guides/source/i18n.txt +++ b/railties/doc/guides/source/i18n.txt @@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ You can pick whatever directory and translation file naming scheme makes sense f I18n.load_path += Dir[ File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'lib', 'locale', '*.{rb,yml}') ] # you can omit this if you're happy with English as a default locale -I18n.default_locale = :"pt-BR" +I18n.default_locale = :"pt" ------------------------------------------------------- I18n.load_path is just a Ruby Array of paths to your translation files. The backend will lazy-load these translations when a translation is looked up for the first time. This makes it possible to just swap the backend with something else even after translations have already been announced. === Set the locale in each request -By default the I18n library will use the I18n.default_locale for looking up translations (if you do not specify a locale for a lookup) and this will, by default, en-US (American English). +By default the I18n library will use the I18n.default_locale for looking up translations (if you do not specify a locale for a lookup) and this will, by default, en (English). If you want to translate your Rails application to a single language other than English you can set I18n.default_locale to your locale. If you want to change the locale on a per-request basis though you can set it in a before_filter on the ApplicationController like this: @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ So let's add the missing translations (i.e. do the "localization" part): [source, ruby] ------------------------------------------------------- -# lib/locale/en-US.yml +# lib/locale/en.yml en-US: hello_world: Hello World hello_flash: Hello Flash @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ All options besides :default and :scope that are passed to #translate will be in [source, ruby] ------------------------------------------------------- -I18n.backend.store_translations 'en-US', :thanks => 'Thanks {{name}}!' +I18n.backend.store_translations 'en', :thanks => 'Thanks {{name}}!' I18n.translate :thanks, :name => 'Jeremy' # => 'Thanks Jeremy!' ------------------------------------------------------- @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ If no locale is passed I18n.locale is used: [source, ruby] ------------------------------------------------------- -I18n.locale = :'de-DE' +I18n.locale = :'de' I18n.t :foo I18n.l Time.now ------------------------------------------------------- @@ -303,15 +303,15 @@ Explicitely passing a locale: [source, ruby] ------------------------------------------------------- -I18n.t :foo, :locale => :'de-DE' -I18n.l Time.now, :locale => :'de-DE' +I18n.t :foo, :locale => :'de' +I18n.l Time.now, :locale => :'de' ------------------------------------------------------- -I18n.locale defaults to I18n.default_locale which defaults to :'en-US'. The default locale can be set like this: +I18n.locale defaults to I18n.default_locale which defaults to :'en'. The default locale can be set like this: [source, ruby] ------------------------------------------------------- -I18n.default_locale = :'de-DE' +I18n.default_locale = :'de' ------------------------------------------------------- == How to store your custom translations @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Here is a "real" example from the ActiveSupport en-US translations YAML file: [source, ruby] ------------------------------------------------------- -"en-US": +"en": date: formats: default: "%Y-%m-%d" @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ You can use the methods Model.human_name and Model.human_attribute_name(attribut For example when you add the following translations: -en-US: +en: activerecord: models: user: Dude @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ Rails ships with the following translations: [source, ruby] ------------------------------------------------------- -"en-US": +"en": activerecord: errors: template: @@ -526,6 +526,7 @@ TODO == Resources +* http://rails-i18n.org == Footnotes |