How to localize your app suggests Padrino.before_load but app locales are not loaded yet

[sshaw]

The docs recommends one use Padrino.before_load but when this runs app/locale has not been loaded, so assigning a locale that's not part of Padrino will result in a failure even though the locale is configured in app/locale.

The right way to go about the seems to be via the app's configure hook just adding the local locales to I18n.load_path yourself in before_load or configure.

[adam12]

I was just looking at this,

The load path for the locales is setup in the setup_locale method, called during setup_application!.

Unfortunately, It's called much later than both before_load and after_load, so I can't see either of those hooks working.

Calling I18n.load_path manually works, but you lose some of the special sauce provided by the Padrino reloader.

[sshaw]

It's also worth noting that setting I18n.locale to :de in before_load will not actually set the request's locale to :de. I18n stores the locale in thread local storage and in most (all?) cases the before_load thread is different than the Rack handler's.

[sshaw]

Fixed by #127.

[wikimatze]

Thanks @sshaw for fixing the issues with the locales.