lib/templates/locales/de.yml lib/templates/locales/en.rb lib/templates/locales/en.yml @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ To install the plugin, change into an existing Rails application and run ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/clemens/localized_dates.git This will download the plugin and store it in vendor/plugins/localized_dates. It will also create a directory named -config/locales and copy three locale files, en-US.rb, en-US.yml, and de-AT.yml into this directory. While the en-US -locale files mimic current Rails formats, de-AT serves as a demo on how date and time formats can be customized. +config/locales and copy three locale files, en.rb, en.yml, and de.yml into this directory. While the "en" +locale files mimic current Rails formats, "de" serves as a demo on how date and time formats can be customized. Adding a new locale ================= @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ locale and basing your new locale on it. Adding new date and time formats ================= -Adding new date and time formats is easy. Take a look at the basic structure of the locale file en-US.yml: +Adding new date and time formats is easy. Take a look at the basic structure of the locale file en.yml: - "en-US": + en: date: formats: default: "%Y-%m-%d" @@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ Adding new date and time formats is easy. Take a look at the basic structure of pm: 'pm' As you can see, there are two basic entites: date and time. time also has two children, datetime and time_with_zone -that both inherit from :time so you usually don't even need to define them (the de-AT locale, for, example doesn't). +that both inherit from :time so you usually don't even need to define them (the "de" locale, for, example doesn't). If you need more complex Ruby constructs such as lambdas, you still need to define them in a separate Ruby file. Take -a look at the following default formats of en-US.rb: +a look at the following default formats of en.rb: { - :'en-US' => { + :en => { :date => { :formats => { :long_ordinal => lambda { |date| "%B #{date.day.ordinalize}, %Y" } @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Customizing day and month names If you localize your application for a language other than English, you most likely want to change the default month and day names to your own countries' names. Here's how it's done: - "de-AT": + de: date: day_names: [Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday] abbr_day_names: [Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat] @@ -122,10 +122,10 @@ the definition of day names starts with Sunday (not Monday). Changing the default locale ================= -If you want to use a default locale other than en-US, you have to tell the i18n plugin the locale you want to use by +If you want to use a default locale other than "en", you have to tell the i18n plugin the locale you want to use by default. Simply put the following line in an initializer in config/initializers or include it in your environment.rb: - I18n.default_locale = 'de-AT' + I18n.default_locale = :de Contributors ================= README @@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ end Rails.logger.info '** [localized_dates] locales loaded from config/locales.' -# set default locale to en-US -I18n.default_locale = 'en-US' \ No newline at end of file +# set default locale to en +I18n.default_locale = 'en' \ No newline at end of file init.rb @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ locales_dir = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'config', 'locales') Dir.mkdir(locales_dir) unless File.directory?(locales_dir) locales_template_dir = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'templates', 'locales') -['en-US.rb', 'en-US.yml', 'de-AT.yml'].each do |locale| +['en.rb', 'en.yml', 'de.yml'].each do |locale| FileUtils.cp(File.join(locales_template_dir, locale), File.join(locales_dir, locale)) end install.rb @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ describe "Date and Time localization" do before(:each) do # load locale files locales_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../lib/templates/locales" - I18n.load_translations("#{locales_dir}/en-US.rb") - I18n.load_translations("#{locales_dir}/en-US.yml") + I18n.load_translations("#{locales_dir}/en.rb") + I18n.load_translations("#{locales_dir}/en.yml") # set up defaults @date_defaults = { :default => "%Y-%m-%d", spec/localized_dates_spec.rb lib/templates/locales/de-AT.yml lib/templates/locales/en-US.rb lib/templates/locales/en-US.yml 7468f7adcc88a131d2ee417dbe26968a09f78fba Andreas Neuhaus zargony@zargony.com http://github.com/clemens/localized_dates/commit/b0cacab580324bca1ba034c207cfba01203f4b1a b0cacab580324bca1ba034c207cfba01203f4b1a 2008-11-21T02:17:42-08:00 2008-11-21T02:17:42-08:00 use :en as a default locale (in favor of :en-US) 43b840e13d9d2b2379882cd67c71a7ac9edfa0de Andreas Neuhaus zargony@zargony.com