Named routes do not translate in Rails 2.3.8

[activestylus]

All of my resources are translated with no problems.

However, the named_routes_path namespace gives me no results in my app.

Here is the freaky part though. When I go to script/console it works fine:

console > app.welcome_path
=> "/welcome" 
console > I18n.locale = 'es'
 => "es" 
console > app.welcome_path
 => "/bienvenido"

But if I call es_welcome_path in my app its undefined, and when I rake routes I dont see it anywhere (or any named route for that matter)

Here is a look inside config/locales/es.yml: es: named_routes_path: sidi: "sidi-8" sidi_info: "sidi-8-sobre-nosotros" sidi_contact: "sidi-8-contacto" sidi_thanks: "sidi-8-gracias" studio: "estudio-de-arquitectura" studio_contact: "estudio-de-arquitectura-contacto" studio_thanks: "estudio-de-arquitectura-gracias" studio_team: "estudio-de-arquitectura-equipo" tech: "tecnicas-de-rehabilitacion" tech_contact: "tecnicas-de-rehabilitacion-contacto" tech_thanks: "tecnicas-de-rehabilitacion-gracias" tech_team: "tecnicas-de-rehabilitacion-equipo" welcome: "bienvenido"

Here is how I'm setting the locale in application_controller:

before_filter :set_current_locale
private
def set_current_locale
  I18n.locale = params[:locale] ? params[:locale] : :en
end

Any idea why named routes are being ignored by this gem?

FWIW I'm running on 1.8.7-head via RVM

[activestylus]

Ok I just tried this on a fresh 2.3.8 app and it worked, so there must be something in my own code that's conflicting.

[kwi]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, but glad you find it yourself !

[activestylus]

For speed's sake I ended up using translate_routes:

http://github.com/raul/translate_routes

It was a faster drop-in that just worked right away. I just needed to add one line to my routes.rb and it was good to go.

Some feedback for you based on my experience with both:

1. I liked how I didn't need to establish any namespaces in my locale files. The plugin just did a simple I18n lookup to whatever was available. This allows me to re-use translations, instead of having to repeat them in a path namespace. In the event that I need special formatting (something-like-this), all I need to do is specify a separate routes yaml file and the plugin takes care of the rest.
2. routes.rb setup was a simple one-liner specifying where the locale file was: ActionController::Routing::Translator.translate_from_file 'config', 'locales', 'routes.yml'

3. It also did something pretty cool, the current locale urls were listed as normal

   /users/new

but anything aside from current would automatically get a namespace

/es/usuarios/nuevo
/de/benutzer/neue

All of this with zero configuration, which I thought was pretty nice.

The only downside to this is the fact that it's a plugin (gems are better) and the code hasn't been touched in over a year, which means Rails 3 support is probably not on the horizon.

I definitely plan on using your gem for my Rails 3 apps, and hope that you take notes on my feedback.

Thanks for sharing this gem btw - keep up the good work!

[kwi]

Great, I'm glad you finally get this stuff working event if it was withtout i18n_routing ! And yes, translate_routes does work with Rails3 and I'm not sure I like the way it add automatic namespace.

But thanks for the advice :)