Can't use I18n for confirmation messages

[spatarel]

How to replicate:

#/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_action :set_locale

  def set_locale
    if request.subdomains.first == 'ro'
      I18n.locale = 'ro'
    elsif request.subdomains.first == 'en'
      I18n.locale = 'en'
    else
      I18n.locale = 'en'
    end
  end
end

#/app/controllers/some_table_controller.rb
class SomeTableController < ApplicationController
  active_scaffold :some_table do |conf|
    conf.action_links.add :some_action,
      type: :collection, crud_type: :update,
      method: :put, position: false,
      confirm: I18n.t('some_table.some_action.confirmation_message')
  end
end

Expected behaviour: The confirmation message should be translated in ro or en, depdending on the subdomain.

Actual behaviour: The confirmation message is translated in the default language.

Why is this happening? set_locale method runs after active_scaffold is configured.

How to fix it?

Option 1: Allow confirm parameter to be either a string or a Proc. Then this code should work:

#/active_scaffold/lib/active_scaffold/data_structures/action_link.rb
    def confirm(label = '')
      return @confirm if !confirm? || @confirm.is_a?(String)
      return @confirm.call if !confirm? || @confirm.is_a?(Proc) # this line is new
      ActiveScaffold::Registry.cache(:translations, @confirm) { as_(@confirm) } % {label: label}
    end

#/app/controllers/some_table_controller.rb
class SomeTableController < ApplicationController
  active_scaffold :some_table do |conf|
    conf.action_links.add :some_action,
      type: :collection, crud_type: :update,
      method: :put, position: false,
      confirm: -> { I18n.t('some_table.some_action.confirmation_message') } # this line is changed
  end
end

Option 2: Perhaps there is some other way of sending that confirmation message. But I don't understand what this line does: ActiveScaffold::Registry.cache(:translations, @confirm) { as_(@confirm) } % {label: label}

Conclusion: I would choose Option 1, since even if there is already support for Option 2, Option 1 offers more flexibility.

[scambra]

If you put I18n.t in active_scaffold block, is evaluated when app starts, so language doesn't change. You must set a symbol there, then active_scaffold will translate it, it will look for symbol under active_scaffold scope.

ActiveScaffold::Registry.cache is caching translation for current action, because when you have a long list, with many rows with same actions, it's faster to translate one and then use interpolation to replace %{label}, than translate many times.

[spatarel]

It works like a charm! Thank you!

I will write down what I did, in case other people are interested in the topic:

#/config/locales/ro.yml
ro:
  active_scaffold:
    some_action_confirmation: 'RO message'

#/config/locales/en.yml
en:
  active_scaffold:
    some_action_confirmation: 'EN message'

#/app/controllers/some_table_controller.rb
class SomeTableController < ApplicationController
  active_scaffold :some_table do |conf|
    conf.action_links.add :some_action,
      type: :collection, crud_type: :update,
      method: :put, position: false,
      confirm: :some_action_confirmation
  end
end

I suppose there's no chance for Proc support, right?

[scambra]

I could accept a patch supporting proc, but I don't know if it would be any improvement