Proof of concept of live locale editor for Ruby on Rails
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edit translations in-place in overlay window right on your live site
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cool firebug-like translation key selector for localized strings
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ajax lazy updating for better user experience
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taranslations listing (index)
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select which locales to show in translations index
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show only keys with missing translations
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unobtrusive JS inclusion - if jQuery is not included in project, editor loads it asynchronously from CDN as noConflict(), then loads itself
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tested in Firefox and Chromium
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tested on rails 2.3.8, 2.3.2 with bundler see: gembundler.com/rails23.html
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not designed as production CMS, it’s for developers and translators
add to your Gemfile:
gem "i18n_locale_editor"
run:
bundle install
add to your layout’s <HEAD> section:
=include_i18n_editor
start server with environment variable:
I18N_EDITOR=true script/server
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toggle selector by clicking on button in bottom right corner
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click on some translation and edit translation directly in your site
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navigate to /translations to see all translations in editor
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tests
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code review and documentation
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rails 3 support
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start using jQuery temlates, it’s cool api.jquery.com/category/plugins/templates/
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test it on real-life translator’s workflow to save clicks and improve efficiency (maybe add ‘commit and next’ to editor)
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toggle each translations in modal window
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auto copy js asset and include by gem version in init.rb
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when open in editor is requested, add locale from key to be shown on index if it is not set in session yet
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when open in editor is requeseed and “show only missing” is enabled, check if the requested key is in the result set, if not cancel the fileter and retry
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make saving back to yaml atomic (save to /tmp and move)
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it will copy javascript assets to RAILS_ROOT/public/i18n_locale_editor on every init, find some better and unobtrusive way
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raise if not vaild html accepted as transalation
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show key name in modal window
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move all javascript functions to i18n namespace to prevent colision
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make hash_tools as inherited class ExtendedHash from Hash (eradicate monkey patching)
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extract translation controller name, model name, routing nammespace to some config and make it dynamic
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ESC to close modal window
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possibility to load another translations in modal
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toggle wym editor in modal (cool)
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change localization key from id to rel in span I18n monkey patch
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git, subversion support for tracking changes
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<strike>escape path for eval in hash_tools.rb (!!!)</strike>
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translation workflow design
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translation key is held in span id=“en.translation.key”. check if the ‘id’ attribute can contain dots
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title, buttons, select options are broken - filter them out
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create tools for refactoring - especially path rename
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paginantion on index
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list missing translations
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api for external access
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scopes support for api (how)
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export all locales to csv (it’s done, but not included in this gem)
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import all locales from csv (it’s done, but not included in this gem)
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key hitcounter
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test in Opera, IE and other browsers…
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review these issues and move them to the github’s task tracker :)
Copyright © 2011 Adam Kliment, Virtualmater s.r.o. See LICENSE for details.
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