Features

Localization

Padrino supports full localization in:

• padrino-core (date formats, time formats etc ...)
• padrino-admin (admin language, orm fields, orm errors, etc ...)
• padrino-helpers (currency, percentage, precision, duration etc ...)

At the moment we support the following list of languages:

• Czech
• Danish
• German
• English
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Dutch
• Norwegian
• Russian
• Polish
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Traditional Chinese
• Simplified Chinese
• Japanese

Provide your translations

Download and translate these files:

• padrino-core.yml
• padrino-admin.yml
• padrino-admin-orm.yml
• padrino-helper.yml

zip your files and send it to padrinorb@gmail.com

How to localize your app

The request's locale can be set in a route filter:

# Route filter
before do
  I18n.locale = :de
end

Or within a route:

get "/" do
  I18n.locale = :de
end

By default Padrino will search for all .yml or .rb files located in app/locale; as an example try to add the following to your app/locale/de.yml:

de:
  foo: Bar

in your view or controller or wherever you prefer add:

I18n.t("foo")

you will get:

=> "Bar"

For more ways to configure the locale see Sinatra's I18n recipe.

Translate Models (ActiveRecord)

Translating models via Padrino requires few seconds thanks to a built-in rake task!

Assuming the following Account model:

create_table :accounts do |t|
  t.string :surname
  t.string :name
  t.string :email
  t.string :salt
  t.string :crypted_password
  t.string :role
end

add this to your boot.rb (or anywhere else):

Padrino.before_load do
  I18n.locale = :it
end

run padrino rake task for localizing your model:

$ padrino rake ar:translate

A new it.yml file will be created into /app/locale/models/account/it.yml with the following:

it:
  models:
    account:
      name: Account
      attributes:
        id: Id
        name: Name
        surname: Surname
        email: Email
        salt: Salt
        crypted_password: Crypted password
        role: Role

You can now edit your generated it.yml file to reflect your current locale (Italian):

it:
  models:
    account:
      name: Account
      attributes:
        id: Id
        name: Nome
        surname: Cognome
        email: Email
        salt: Salt
        crypted_password: Crypted password
        role: Role

padrino-admin will now use your newly created yml file for translating the column names of grids, forms, error_messages etc ...

Form Builders

Form builder labels are automatically translated:

-form_for :account, url(:accounts_create, :format => :js), :remote => true do |f|
  %table
    %tr
      %td=f.label :name
      %td=f.text_field :name
    %tr
      %td=f.label :surname
      %td=f.text_field :surname
    %tr
      %td=f.label :role
      %td=f.select :role, :options => access_control.roles

It looks for translations with a key of MODEL.attributes.ATTRIBUTE where MODEL is the name of the model passed to form_for and ATTRIBUTE is the given attribute name.

last updated: 2022-02-22