Mova-I18n

Mova-I18n overwrites translate/t method of I18n in a way that delegates it to Mova internals without major breaking of I18n API. This speeds up translation lookups while staying compatible with libraries that rely on I18n.

Status

Not tested in production.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile and run bundle:

gem 'mova-i18n'

Configuration

No configuration is needed if you have in-memory I18n::Backend::Simple backend (used in Rails apps by default). Mova-I18n will use I18n setup (including locale fallbacks) and automatically load translations stored in local files.

When using other persistent key-value storage, you probably need chain configuration like this:

require "mova/storage/chain"
require "mova/storage/readonly"
require "mova/storage/memory"
redis = ActiveSupport::Cache::RedisStore.new("localhost:6379/0")
chain = Mova::Storage::Chain.new(Mova::Storage::Readonly.new(redis), Mova::Storage::Memory.new)
I18n.mova.translator = Mova::I18nTranslator.new(storage: chain)

Note, that you must pass your storage wrapped in Readonly, otherwise I18n.reload! will clear all translations stored there when Rails boots up. It will also protect your storage from having incompatible data written to it, such as hashes or procs (those are partially supported and can be handled normally only with in-memory storage). Such configuration allows to override Rails default translations in your backend, since first storage takes precedence over next one.

Compatibility

Supported

• the following I18n.translate calls:

I18n.t(:key)
I18n.t("key")
I18n.t(:key, locale: :fr)
I18n.t(:key, raise: true)
I18n.t(:key, throw: true)
I18n.t(:key, fallback: true) # i.e. disabled locale fallback
I18n.t(:key, default: :default_key_lookup)
I18n.t(:key, default: "default translation")
I18n.t(:key, default: [:default_key_lookup1, :default_key_lookup2])
I18n.t(:key, default: [:default_key_lookup1, "default translation"])
I18n.t(:key, scope: :key_scope)
I18n.t(:key, scope: [:key_scope_part1, :key_scope_part2])
I18n.t(:key, interpolation1: "value1", interpolation2: "value2")
I18n.t(:key, count: 3)

Any combination of locale, raise/throw, default, scope, count, fallback options is also supported.

• I18n.localize and I18n.transliterate

• locale fallbacks

Partially supported

• storing values other than String or nil is possible only with in-memory storage or with chain including in-memory storage (see "Configuration"). Although it violates one of the Mova design principles, Mova-I18n tries to be compatible with Rails localization helpers that require hashes to be returned from I18n.t, so it writes to and retrieves a couple of hashes from a storage.

Not supported

• translations as procs, using procs in defaults. Actually, you can store them (see "Partially supported"), but they'll never be called. The only exception are the pluralization and transliteration rules (for compatibility with Rails-I18n project).

  This means that default option in Rails 4.x views won't work, because Rails wraps it in a proc call. Although using default in a template is a bad practice anyway.

• bulk translation via I18n.t([:first_key, :second_key]). Use map instead.

• cascade lookup