A quick bridge to use TOML files as I18n translations in Ruby on Rails applications.

Using TOML for translations has some nice benefits over the traditional YAML format:

• TOML does not require indentation, which can be error-prone and tedious in YAML.
• TOML can define namespaces which resemble the learned structure of Rails I18n.
• TOML does not restrict the use of comments, which can be useful for documenting translations.
• TOML supports multiple top-level keys, which can be useful for organizing translations by topic rather than by locale.

# config/locales/translations.toml
[en.welcome.header]
title = "Welcome to %{app_name}!"
subtitle = "The best place to be."

[de.welcome.header]
title = "Willkommen bei %{app_name}!"
subtitle = "Der beste Ort zum sein." # Thank you copilot for this shiny example :trollface:

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

bundle add i18n-toml

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install i18n-toml

No need for any setup, just start placing .toml files in the config/locales directory of your Rails application.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/xijo/i18n-toml