ActiveI18n

ActiveI18n is an translation panel designed to work inside an activeadmin.

how it looks:

ActiveAdmin and Rails version

This library was tested only on rails 3.2.x. with activeadmin 0.6.x. If you would like to use it with 4.x rails version - just let me know I will port it.

Prerequisites

1. activeadmin gem
2. active_skin gem (optional for better looking)

Installation

0. make sure you have activeadmin installed

1. add gems to your gemfile:

# gemfile
gem "activeadmin", "~> 0.6.3"
gem "active_skin" #for better looking
gem "active_i18n"
gem "haml" # because aa views are in haml
gem "redis" # when you are using Redis as a translations store

and then run: bundle install

2. add rails initializer

create file active_i18n.rb in config/initializers

# config/initializers/active_i18n.rb
ActiveI18n.config(
  store: I18n::Backend::KeyValue.new(Redis.new),
  except: ["testtranslationkey", "date", "datetime"]
)

store: sets translation store (in this example redis database - required) except: removes some of the keys from the sidebar menu (optional)

If you are using redis you also will need to run the redis server redis-server in console

3. define languages to translate

now having everything set up you could narrow the list of available languages and select base locale (if you don't - your users will see in selectboxes list of all available locales). You will do this in application.rb

config.i18n.default_locale = :en
config.i18n.available_locales = [:en, :pl, :de] #placing :en again allows users to change default texts on your website

4. add translation to the active admin menu

in your app/admin folder create new file called translations.rb (or whatever)

ActiveAdmin.register_translation "Translations", 
  :parent => "CMS",
  :priority => 2, 
  :label => "Translations"

hash is the same as in menu function in ActiveAdmin.

5. add css and js

inside active_admin.js add active_i18n:

...
//= require active_admin/base
...

//= require active_i18n

and inside active_admin.css.scss also add active_i18n:

...
@import "active_admin/mixins";
@import "active_admin/base";
@import "active_skin";
...

@import "active_i18n";

and you are ready to go

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/rstgroup/active_i18n/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request