From 4509f9eaed755235a6cd886f81336c31cdad2425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ankit Gupta Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:24:55 +0100 Subject: Fixing the broken URL [skip ci] --- guides/source/i18n.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/guides/source/i18n.md b/guides/source/i18n.md index 2b116c337a..a20e82931d 100644 --- a/guides/source/i18n.md +++ b/guides/source/i18n.md @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ If you want to translate your Rails application to a **single language other tha However, you would probably like to **provide support for more locales** in your application. In such case, you need to set and pass the locale between requests. -WARNING: You may be tempted to store the chosen locale in a _session_ or a cookie, however **do not do this**. The locale should be transparent and a part of the URL. This way you won't break people's basic assumptions about the web itself: if you send a URL to a friend, they should see the same page and content as you. 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). Sometimes there are exceptions to this rule and those are discussed below. +WARNING: You may be tempted to store the chosen locale in a _session_ or a cookie, however **do not do this**. The locale should be transparent and a part of the URL. This way you won't break people's basic assumptions about the web itself: if you send a URL to a friend, they should see the same page and content as you. 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). Sometimes there are exceptions to this rule and those are discussed below. The _setting part_ is easy. You can set the locale in a `before_action` in the `ApplicationController` like this: -- cgit v1.2.3