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Re: rendering localized templates

by Joshua Wehner-3 :: Rate this Message:

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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
>

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