Autochthon

A simple Sinatra app for managing translations stored in YAML files, database or Redis.

Look at this as localeapp hosted in your application.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'autochthon', github: 'asok/autochthon

Usage

Rails application with ActiveRecord backend

Setup backend

Add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'i18n-active_record', :require => 'i18n/active_record'

Create file config/initializers/autochthon.rb with content:

require 'i18n/backend/active_record'

I18n.backend = Autochthon.backend = Autochthon::Backend::ActiveRecord.new

Autochthon.mount_point = "your_mount_point"

Probably you will want to use memoize so you don't generate a bunch of queries on each request:

require 'i18n/backend/active_record'

if I18n::Backend::ActiveRecord::Translation.table_exists?
  I18n.backend = Autochthon.backend = Autochthon::Backend::ActiveRecord.new
  I18n.backend.class.include(I18n::Backend::Memoize)
end

Autochthon.mount_point = "your_mount_point"

NOTE: this will not work when you have your web server running several ruby processes. That is the process in which you'll update the translation will see the new value for it. But other requests might be served by another process which will have the old value. If that's the case consider:

• not using memoization
• caching the translation with an expiration option
• using redis backend without memoization

Create table

Create the translations table:

bundle exec rake autochthon:create

Rails application with Redis backend

Setup backend

Add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'redis-i18n'

Create file config/initializers/autochthon.rb with content:

require 'i18n/backend/redis'

I18n.backend = Autochthon.backend = Autochthon::Backend::Redis.new

Autochthon.mount_point = "your_mount_point"

Rails application with Simple (YAML) backend

NOTE: this backend operates in memory only. Meaning that your translations will not be persisted anywhere.

Create file config/initializers/autochthon.rb with content:

I18n.backend = Autochthon.backend = Autochthon::Backend::Simple.new

Autochthon.mount_point = "your_mount_point"

Mount

Add this to the routes:

mount Autochthon::Web => Autochthon.mount_point, :as => 'autochthon''

Probably you will want to authenticate. In case you are using devise you can do:

authenticate(:admin) do
  mount Autochthon::Web => '/autochthon', :as Autochthon.mount_point
end

Import

You can import existing translations from the I18n's simple backend (YAML files):

rake autochthon:import

If you want to only import specific locales you can do so:

LOCALES="en,fr" rake autochthon:import

Filling missing translations via right click

In your app/assets/javascripts/application.js file do:

//= require 'autochthon/application'

Now you can right click on the missing translations to fill them in.

Examples

• rails application using ActiveRecord backend https://github.com/asok/autochthon_rails_example_app

Development

In the dir web/ run npm install fallowed by npm run watch.

That will compile the js files and put them in public/bundle.js.

Note: for a release you can run npm run build.

Testing

bundle exec rspec

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/asok/autochthon.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.