Localization

We use Transifex to translate Mconf-Web to other languages. To help with the translation, visit https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/mconf-web/, create an account and request to be included as a translator to the language you with to translate Mconf-Web to.

The languages maintained by the Mconf team are:

• English
• Portuguese (Brazil)

Technical information

All the language files are inside the folder config/locales and they use the YAML format. There is a folder for each language and each of these folders contains one or more language files. All the files in these folders are automatically loaded when the application starts.

Development process

• Both en and pt-br are updated during the development process. Files are updated directly on GitHub.
• Periodically the files for en and pt-br are uploaded to Transifex.
• Other languages are translated directly on Transifex.
• Periodically the files for the other languages is downloaded from Transifex and updated into the repository.

How to add a new language manually

For French ("fr"), for example:

• Create a directory config/locales/fr/;
• Translate all files in config/locales/en/ and save them in config/locales/fr/ using the same filename;
• Change the first line in all of the locale files to the new "fr" language (it was "en");
• Add :fr to the list of available locales in the application in config/application.rb;
• Add the new language and its name to config/configatron/defaults.rb.
• Add the .js with the locale for moment.js in app/assets/javascripts/application.js.

Note: Grepping for an existent language might help (e.g. grep-rails "es.419" . -r).