i18n Support

[Chew]

Rails has native i18n support (see config/locales).

In the code, you need to do the following:

t('key')

Or, in controllers:

I18n.t('key')

Assuming you have the corresponding value in config/locales/en.yml:

key: Global Value

You can specify the locale however we want. Maybe a dropdown for it in the navbar?

If there are no translations in the given language, it falls back to the default (English).

I've not much experience with Crowdin, but it should be pretty simple to figure out. I won't be the one able to make it, though.

On RubyMine, not sure about other clients, but selecting a t('string') and pressing CMD+0 hides it with the actual translation. Quite poggers

For strings specific to a file/controller, you simply need to do this:

In locale:

controller:
  action:
    key: Local Value

So in app/controllers/controller.rb method action or app/views/controller/action.html.erb you can do:

t('.key')

Which will put "Local Value" instead of "Global Value". It definitely saves on key length.

There are not many Strings right now, but we don't want to get too far behind.

[rtm516]

You can specify the locale however we want. Maybe a dropdown for it in the navbar?

I think we should get this from the users IP (geo IP lookup) and allow the user to set it when logged in? Navbar would be good for non-logged-in users.

Im happy to add a branch to the https://github.com/GeyserMC/languages repo but I think we need things pulling into an en.yml first, then I can setup the submodule and crowdin config.

[Chew]

Sounds good. The locale is in config/locales but is unoccupied as we haven't been doing it as we've been going.