Rails i18n locale editor

Proof of concept of live locale editor for Ruby on Rails

Features

edit translations in-place in overlay window right on your live site
cool firebug-like translation key selector for localized strings
ajax lazy updating for better user experience
taranslations listing (index)
select which locales to show in translations index
show only keys with missing translations
unobtrusive JS inclusion - if jQuery is not included in project and async autoloads it from CDN as noConflict(), then loads itself
tested in Firefox and Chromium
tested on rails 2.3.8, 2.3.2 with bundler see: gembundler.com/rails23.html
not designed as production CMS, it’s for developers

Installation

add to your Gemfile:

gem "i18n_locale_editor"

run:

bundle install

add to your layout’s <HEAD> section:

=include_i18n_editor

start server with environment variable:

I18N_EDITOR=true script/server

TODO

tests
code review and documentation
rails 3 support
test it on real-life translator’s workflow to save clicks and improve efficiency (maybe add ‘commit and next’ to editor)
auto copy js asset and include by gem version in init.rb
when open in editor is requested, add locale from key to be shown on index if it is not set in session yet
when open in editor is requeseed and “show only missing” is enabled, check if the requested key is in the result set, if not cancel the fileter and retry
it will copy javascript assets to RAILS_ROOT/public/i18n_locale_editor on every init, find some better and unobtrusive way
raise if not vaild html accepted as transalation
show key name in modal window
move all javascript functions to i18n namespace to prevent colision
make hash_tools as inherited class ExtendedHash from Hash (eradicate monkey patching)
extract translation controller name, model name, routing nammespace to some config and make it dynamic
ESC to close modal window
possibility to load another translations in modal
toggle wym editor in modal (cool)
change localization key from id to rel in span I18n monkey patch
git, subversion support for tracking changes
escape path for eval in hash_tools.rb (!!!)
translation workflow design
translation key is held in span id=“en.translation.key”. check if the ‘id’ attribute can contain dots
title, buttons, select options are broken - filter them out
create tools for refactoring - especially path rename
paginantion on index
list missing translations
api for external access
scopes support for api (how)
export all locales to csv (it’s done, but not included in this gem)
import all locales from csv (it’s done, but not included in this gem)
key hitcounter
test in Opera, IE and other browsers…
review these issues and move them to the github’s task tracker :)

Rails i18n locale editor

Features

Installation

TODO

Copyright