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Introducing Babilu: Rails i18n for your JavaScript
Babilu is a Rails plugin that mirrors your i18n setup in JSON and JavaScript format. This allows you to take your translations with you when you cross that great divide which separates the server from the browser. It provides a very similar environment that you can use in your JavaScript code to do translations directly in the browser.
I18n.defaultLocale // "en"
I18n.locale // Whatever the locale has been set to on the server
I18n.t('hello') // "Hello World"
I18n.t('messages.invalid', {scope:['activerecord', 'errors']}) // "is invalid"
I18n.t('activerecord.errors.template.header', {count:4, model:'horse'}) // "4 errors prohibited this horse from being
saved"
//Defaults work the same way as in Rails
I18n.t('doesntexist', {defaultValue:'humbaba'}) // "humbaba"
I18n.t('doesntexist', {defaultValue:':hello'}) // "Hello world"
I18n.t('doesntexist', {defaultValue:[':alsodoesntexist', 'The Sasqutch: Fact or Fiction?']}) // "The Sasquatch: Fact or
Fiction?"To install:
script/plugin install git://github.com/toretore/lucy.git
script/plugin install git://github.com/toretore/babilu.gitThen load the generated JavaScript in your layout:
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/javascripts/locales.js"></script>
</head>Babilu will automatically reload your locales on each request in development mode, just like you’d expect, but in production they will only be loaded when the server starts up.
