jurou / 翻譯蒟蒻

A collection of i18n related view helpers for Rails. Work in progress.

Lets say we have a model Book. Book.genre is a pre defined list of book genres, such as fantasy, detective, romance, history, manga.

Most developers stick to English (at least the Latin alphabet) for such values. The thing is, your app more than often requires you to display them as 奇幻, 推理, 羅曼史, 歷史, 漫畫 or whatever your native language.

Although there's the handy I18n API for localization, turns out this was still a messier process than I imagined. To keep things DRY I put together jurou for myself.

Installation

Tested on Ruby 2.3.1 and Rails 5.

# Gemfile
gem "jurou"

$ bundle install

Generate the locale yml file. Defaults to your application's default_locale if --locale not specified.

$ rails generate jurou:install
$ rails generate jurou:install --locale ja

Examples

Fill in the details in the generated locale file:

# config/locale/jurou.zh-TW.yml
zh-TW:
  jurou:
    book:
      genre:
        fantasy: 奇幻
        detective: 推理
        romance: 羅曼史
        history: 歷史
        manga: 漫畫
        
    app_title: 翻譯蒟蒻
    
    page_titles:
      books:
        _label: 我的書櫃
        index: 書籍列表
        edit: 修改書籍
      admin/sales:
        index: 銷售紀錄
        
  activerecord:
    attributes:
      book:
        title: 書名
        author: 作者
        genre: 類別

jr_collection

Use jr_collection in your form template:

# app/views/books/_form.html.slim
= simple_form_for @book do |f|
  = f.input :genre, collection: jr_collection(:genre, :book)

jurou will then generate the collection hash for the form helper, resulting in the following HTML:

<select>
  <option value="fantasy">奇幻</option>
  <option value="detective">推理</option> 
  <option value="romance">羅曼史</option>
  <option value="history">歷史</option> 
  <option value="manga">漫畫</option> 
</select>

jr_attribute

jr_attribute simply outputs the corresponding translation of the attribute. Shorthand jr_attr also available.

jr_attribute :author, :book
=> "作者"

jr_value

jr_value is only useful when you need to get the translation for the attribute value itself.

jr_value :genre, @book.genre, :book
=> "推理"

jr_table_row, jr_table_row_translate_value

Or, if you're lazy enough like me, there's also jr_table_row and jr_table_row_translate_value which takes advantage of jr_attribute and jr_value to make a quick and dirty table display. Shorthand jr_row and jr_row_val also available.

# app/views/books/show.html.slim
table
  = jr_table_row :title, @book.title, :book
  = jr_table_row :author, @book.author, :book
  = jr_table_row_translate_value :genre, @book.genre, :book

This will produce the following HTML:

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>書名</th>
    <td>神探伽利略</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>作者</th>
    <td>東野圭吾</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>類別</th>
    <td>推理</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Be more lazy!

For the above helpers, you can omit passing :book all together if you are following Rails naming convention:

jr_row :title, @book.title
=> <tr><th>作者</th><td>神探伽利略</td></tr>

jr_row_val :genre, @book.genre
=> <tr><th>類別</th><td>推理</td></tr>

jr_attr :author
=> 作者

jr_value :genre, @book.genre
=> 推理

jr_collection :genre
=> { fantasy: "奇幻", detective: "推理", romance: "羅曼史", history: "歷史", manga: "漫畫" }

More laziness with shikigami

If you are using shikigami, jurou will fallback to the current_object whenever possible, so you can just write this and be done:

jr_row :title
=> <tr><th>作者</th><td>神探伽利略</td></tr>

jr_row_val :genre
=> <tr><th>類別</th><td>推理</td></tr>

jr_page_title

jr_page_title generates the page title based on the current controller and action. It will fallback to your app title when there is no match.

# app/views/layout/application.html.slim
title = jr_page_title

# BooksController#index
=> "書籍列表 | 翻譯蒟蒻"

# MoviesController#index
=> "翻譯蒟蒻"

jr_content_for_page_title

You can further customize the title with jr_content_for_page_title, or jr_title for short.

# app/views/books/edit.html.slim
= jr_content_for_page_title("神探伽利略")

# BooksController#edit
=> "神探伽利略 | 修改書籍 | 翻譯蒟蒻"

jr_simple_title

Use jr_simple_title when you need to manually get a page title, instead of relying on the black magic of jr_page_title. The app title will not be included. Comes in handy when building dropdown menus.

# defaults to the current controller/action
jr_simple_title
=> "書籍列表"

# general label for a controller, same as jr_simple_title(:books, :_label)
jr_simple_title(:books)
=> "我的書櫃"

# specify controller and action
jr_simple_title(:books, :index)
=> "書籍列表"

# controller with namespace
jr_simple_title("admin/sales", :index)
=> "銷售管理"

jurou

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