Is it possible to have hyphens in a jumbled key for use in my I18n en.yml file?

Question

For instance:

en: foobar-does-not-work: 'This is my value' 

Then if I do:

 t(foobar-does-not-work) # => returns nil 

This will not parse Ruby yml. Is there any way to make it work? My keys are based on a url that has a dash ( - ) in it.

Answer 1

What version of ruby ​​are you using? Can you show us your code and error?

This works for me:

 > require 'yaml' > YAML.load_file('foo.yml') {"en"=>{"foobar-does-not-work"=>"This is my value"}} 

And it works when I add it to my en.yml:

 > I18n.t('foobar-does-not-work') => "This is my value" 

Have you checked the value of I18n.locale?

Answer 2

I think you are using the wrong key when calling method t . Remove the 'en' from the key. It should be:

 t('foobar-does-not-work') 

Answer 3

Obviously, there is a basic problem that needs to be fixed. There is a very good tool that parses your i18n YAML as a Rails application, which I found extremely useful when debugging.

Install and run this gem of i18n tasks: https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks .

To create a comprehensive report of your i18n components:

 $ i18n-tasks health 

From their specification:

 This gem analyses code statically for key usages, such as I18n.t('some.key'), in order to: Report keys that are missing or unused. Pre-fill missing keys, optionally from Google Translate. Remove unused keys. Thus addressing the two main problems of i18n gem design: Missing keys only blow up at runtime. Keys no longer in use may accumulate and introduce overhead, without you knowing it. 

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I'm not sure if the gem was intended to be used as a debugging tool for i18n, but I found it useful for debugging to find problems in i18n.