teamon-merb-simple-translation

h2. merb-simple-translation

A plugin for the Merb framework that provides simple UI translation

h3. Installation

h4. Gem

@gem sources -a http://gems.github.com@ @sudo gem install teamon-merb-simple-translation@

h4. Configuration

config/dependencies.rb

dependency "teamon-merb-simple-translation", :require_as => "merb-simple-translation"

config/init.rb

Merb::BootLoader.after_app_loads do
  Translation.load
end

h3. Other options

h4. Reload translation files on every request

config/environments/development.rb

Merb::Config.use { |c|
  c[:translation_debug] = true
}

h4. Change translations dir (default PROJECT_ROOT/translations) or default language

config/init.rb

Merb::BootLoader.after_app_loads do
  Translation.translations_dir = Merb.root / 'i18n' 
  Translation.default_language = 'pl'
end

h3. Translation files

Plugin lets you write translations in two ways

h4. Ruby files

translations/pl.rb

Translation.add_translations('pl', {
  "Log in" => "Zaloguj"
})

h4. YAML files

translations/pl.yml

pl:
  Homepage: Strona domowa

h3. Copy default translation files to app directory @rake merb-simple-translation:copy-defaults@