Tag Archives: I18n

Do not show I18n missing translation tooltips in production

Problem:
Lots of stuff does not need any translation, so we simply leave it untranslated (e.g. firstname shows as Firstname). But this leaves ugly “missing translation” spans in out html.
Instead of entering senseless translations for everything thats missing, we simply deactivate the tooltips in production, while also avoiding raising/rescuing theses MissingTranslation errors to improve performance(rescue/raise is not cheap).

Code:

# https://grosser.it/2012/02/04/do-not-show-i18n-missing-translation-tooltips-in-production/
# config/initializers/disable_i18n_tooltips.rb
# missing translations
# - Do not show tooltips in production/test
# - Do not raise ( speedup) for every missing translations
I18n::Backend::Base.class_eval do
  def translate_with_default(locale, key, options = {})
    if options[:rescue_format] == :html && ['test','production'].include?(Rails.env)
      default = key.to_s.gsub('_', ' ').gsub(/\b('?[a-z])/) { $1.capitalize }
      options.reverse_merge!(default: default)
    end
    translate_without_default(locale, key, options)
  end

  alias_method_chain :translate, :default
end

Umlaut Aware Alphabetical Sorting

The simples solution i could come up with, convert all chars to their base (á -> a), using String.tr would be ideal for this task, but its not UTF8 aware…

If you dare to digg deeper, more information can be found on wiki and on coding horror 

list.sort_by{|name| convert_umlaut_to_base(name)}

  def convert_umlaut_to_base(input)
    text = input.dup
    %w[áäa ÁÄA óöo ÓÖO íi ÍI úüu ÚÜU ée ÉE ßs].each do |set|
      text.gsub!(/[#{set[0..-2]}]/,set[-1..-1])
    end
    text
  end