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Parsing YAML in Rails i18n locale files to generate JSON for a javascript translation method
These are the code parts to grab related to this blog post.
Read more about it there
http://www.igumbi.com/en/blog/YAML-to-JSON-Rails-for-i18n-Language-Files
# The locale file structure de.yml
de:
obt:
online_booking_tool: "online Buchungstool"
book: "Buchen"
save: "Speichern"
edit: "Bearbeiten"´
# The Rake Task assets.rake
desc "create a static javascript translation file with each language available as a JSON object"
task :jslang => :environment do
languages = %w(de en)
langfilejs = "public/javascripts/seller/obtlang.js"
namespace = "obt"
file=File.new(langfilejs,"w")
languages.each do |lang|
langfile=YAML::load(File.open("config/locales/#{lang}.yml"))
file.write(namespace+lang+"="+langfile[lang][namespace].to_json+";\n\n")
end
file.close
end
# The Javascript translation method
var Obt = {
t: function(key){
if (Igumbi[Igumbi.lang][key]) {
return(Igumbi[Igumbi.lang][key]);
}
return("<span style='color:red; font-size:2em;'>"+key+"("+Igumbi.lang+") translation missing</span>");
}
}
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