Try 'howto.nl.rhtml', that has worked for me in the past.
-- joshua
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Duco <
duco@...> wrote:
>
> I'have been looking through the FAQ's and this mailing list's archive.
> Although I did found some messages related to this, I did not found a way to
> get localized templates to work.
>
> In my application, there is a template called "howto.rhtml". According the
> documentation, I create a template "howto.nl-NL.rhtml" and set the locale to
> "nl-NL". While all my view translations in other places in the applications
> do work and are nicely translated in Dutch, I never get "howto.nl-NL.rhtml",
> which is currently rendered from a trivial action in a controller:
>
> def howto
> end
>
> I took a look in the source code of Globalize and I think the "magic" is in
> lib/globalize/rails/action_view.rb (method render_file). But the logic of
> selecting a "version" of <template>.rhtml, such as <template>.nl-NL.rhtml
> does not seem the called. When I trigger a stack trace during the rendering
> of howto.rhtml, I don't see any Globalize-specific methods in the call stack
> (just standard RoR methods).
>
> I did try to make the controller method more explicit in what template to
> render:
>
>
> def howto
> render :action, 'howto'
> end
>
> but this does not make any change.
>
> The only way I found to do anything with howto.nl-NL.rhtml is by calling
>
> render :file, 'howto.rhtml'
>
> which indeed renders howto.nl-NL.rhtml when the locale is set to nl-NL. But
> this renders the template as plain text, not as HTML. Including a component
> 'text.html' in the file name, as seems to be suggested by some other
> messages in this mailing list, does not make any difference here (but maybe
> this works for ActionMailer only, not for ActionView?).
>
> Any ideas how to make localized templates work? (I'm using RoR 1.2.6 and a
> recent version of the for-1.2 of Globalize.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Duco
>