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