TIL #2: How to Always Include Language Code in Your Rails App URLs

Dec 20, 2017 • 2 min read

In today's TIL...

Ruby on Rails!

When you're developing the multi-language application at some point you may encounter the need to always include language code in your URLs.

The same happened to me and I found one extremely simple trick that will allow you to:

1. Always have language code in your URLs.

2. Redirect user to correct URL when someone tried to reach your app without language code given.

All you need to do is change slightly your config/routes.rb. Here you go:


# config/routes.rb

MyApp::Application.routes.draw do
  scope "/:locale", locale: /#{I18n.available_locales.join("|")}/ do
    # your routes go here
    
    root to: "home#index"
  end
  
  root to: redirect("/#{I18n.default_locale}", status: 302), as: :redirected_root
  get "/*path", to: redirect("/#{I18n.default_locale}/%{path}", status: 302),
                constraints: { path: /(?!(#{I18n.available_locales.join("|")})\/).*/ },
                format: false
end

Simple, isn't it?

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