Lost in translation
Rails i18n web interface
Translate your apps with pleasure (sort of...) and for free. It's simple i18n web interface, build on top of twitter bootstrap, that one may find helpful in translating app by non-technicals.
Highly inspired by Copycopter by thoughtbot.
Features
- Runs with your app - no need for external services
- Support for array types, (ie.
date.abbr_day_names
) - Versioning translations - you can always check, how value did look like in past
- Possibility to synchronize translations between environments or apps
- Easy to install - works as an engine, comes with simple generator
- You can always export all translations to plain old YAML file
- Has build in wysiwyg editor (jQuery TE)
Screenshots
Check wiki: Screenshots
So... again - what is it and how to use it?
Lit is Rails engine - it runs in it's own namespace, by default it's avaulable under /lit
. It provides UI for managing translations of your app.
Once you call I18n.t()
function from your views, Lit is asked whether it has or not proper value for it. If translation is present in database and is available for Lit, it's served back. If it does not exists, record is automatically created in database with initial value provided in default
option key. If default
key is not present, value nil
is saved to database. When app is starting, Lit will preload all keys from your local config/locale/*.yml
files - this is why app startup may take a while.
To optimize translation key lookup, Lit can use different cache engines. For production with many workers redis
is suggested, for local development hash
will be fine (hash
is stored in memory, so if you have many workers and will update translation value in backend, only one worker will have proper translation in it's cache - db will be updated anyway).
Installation
- Add
lit
gem to yourGemfile
gem "lit"
-
run
bundle install
-
run installation generator
bundle exec rails g lit:install
(for production/staging environmentredis
is suggested as key value engine.hash
will not work in multi process environment) -
After doing above and restarting app, point your browser to
http://app/lit
-
Profit!
You may want to take a look at generated initializer in config/initializers/lit.rb
and change some default configuration options.
ToDo
VersioningAPISynchronization between environments- Rewrite initializer
Rewrite exporter (which is now code from copycopter)Support for array types (ie.date.abbr_day_names
)GeneratorSupport for wysiwyg- Better cache
Support for other key value providers (ie. Redis does not support Array types in easy way)(not applicable, as array storage works now with redis).- Integration with ActiveAdmin
- Support for Proc defaults (like in
I18n.t("not_exising_keys", :default=> lambda{|_, options| "text"})
)
License
Lit is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the MIT-LICENSE file.