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Rails: Internationalization of Javascript Strings?

Asked 2010-04-23T20:20:29.037
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So, we have an existing Rails 2.3.5 app that does not support Internationalization at all. Now, I'm well familiar with Rails I18n stuff, but we have a LOT of output strings inside /javascripts/. I'm not a huge fan of this approach, but unfortunately it is too late to fix it now.

How might we internationalize strings stored in JS files in a Rails app? Rails doesn't even serve the JS files...

I'm thinking I could always have the Rails app serve up the JS files, but that seems pretty gross. Are there plugins to do this?

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Ryan solution is brillant. But to not include the entire file you should use: @translations[I18n.locale].with_indifferent_access["alpha"] instead of I18n.backend.send(:translations)["alpha"]

answered 2013-06-05T11:31:35.573

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