Welcome to brand new series of content where we will share short tips and pieces of knowledge.
This time Ruby on Rails!
Recently I was working on separating gettext translations in our project into separate domains. It's very useful in cases when some strings should be translated differently in different contexts. I will explain shortly how to use multiple domains for Gettext translations in your Rails app. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
- Rails app
- grosser/fast_gettext - it's one of the commonly used alternatives for I18n.
By default, gettext is using single default domain. To have more than one domain we will need to overwrite gettext:setup task using our app configuration. Here are some examples which can show you how you can achieve that:
Now rails gettext:setup and rails gettext:find should create files called app.pot, frontend.pot and new_design.pot. Every call of domain-based translation method (e.g. d_("new_design", "Some string from new design goes here")) will be translated based on the values in the domain pot file. Voila, problem solved!
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