Translate routes

[vyper]

Manually?

# in english
resources :events, only: :show

# in portuguese
resources :eventos, only: :show, controller: :events

Output...

event  GET    /events/:id(.:format)                    events#show
evento GET    /eventos/:id(.:format)                   events#show

Or use gem?

[diegopolido]

Maybe this gem?

https://github.com/enriclluelles/route_translator

[vyper]

The route_translator worked... I saw others, but I don't found better option.

config/router.rb

# from
resources :events, only: :show

# to
localized do
  resources :events, only: :show
end

rake routes

           event_en GET    /en/events/:id(.:format)                 events#show {:locale=>"en"}
        event_pt_br GET    /eventos/:id(.:format)                   events#show {:locale=>"pt-BR"}

But the routes events/:name don't work after the gem applied, we'll have to change all routes in oldest posts. I think it's... justo!

[vyper]

But... I remembered... exists posts using /events/:name! We can't change this routes, we need to keep the routes. ):

[lcguida]

Why localize the routes? I18n let's you put the localization in the url:

# config/routes.rb
scope "/:locale" do
  resources :events
end

This way it's possible to access the localized page by: <url>/pt-br/events

[vyper]

@lcguida improvement for a better seo...

[tiagolupepic]

Maybe use an initializer to hide locales

RouteTranslator.config do |config|
  config.hide_locale = true
end

[tiagolupepic]

And.. to fix routes in tests.

RouteTranslator.config do |config|
  config.hide_locale = true
  config.generate_unlocalized_routes = true if Rails.env.test?
end