What is the recommended I18n path?

[jaredmoody]

Consider the following extremely contrived component:

class HelloComponent < ViewComponent::Base
  def initialize(fancy: false)
    @fancy = fancy
  end

  def greeting
    @fancy ? t('.fancy_greeting') : t('.regular_greeting')
  end
end

##### hello_component.html.erb

<%= greeting %>

This raises a HelpersCalledBeforeRenderError and all I see in the docs regarding how to deal with it are to put it in a before_render block.

Is something like the following where I set the translated values into variables in abefore_render the recommended approach?

class HelloComponent < ViewComponent::Base
  attr_accessor :greeting
  
  def initialize(fancy: false)
    @fancy = fancy
  end

  def before_render
    self.greeting = @fancy ? t('.fancy_greeting') : t('.regular_greeting')
  end
end

Even with a very small number of translated strings this feels like I'm really fighting against ViewComponent 😞

The only other option I can think of is to push the logic down into the template which feels even worse.

Is there a better way?

[camertron]

Hey @jaredmoody, apologies for the delayed reply. I just tried copy/pasting the component in your first code block into a Rails 7.0 app, and it worked just fine. What you're doing here is 100% the "right" way to do translations in components. Is it possible a helper is being called in some other part of your code? To help further diagnose the issue, would it be possible for you to share a minimal reproduction case in the form of an app or test case? A stack trace could also be helpful.

[jaredmoody]

Well now I'm the delayed reply - good to know I was doing it right, I'll try to track down why I was seeing that error with calls to t!