README.md
# ActiveI18n
ActiveI18n is an translation panel designed to work inside an activeadmin.
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how it looks:
<a href="./screen.png"><img src="./screen.png"></a>
### ActiveAdmin and Rails version
This library was tested only on rails 3.2.x. with activeadmin 0.6.x. If you would like to use it with 4.x rails version - just let me know I will port it.
### Prerequisites
1. [activeadmin](http://activeadmin.info/) gem
2. [active_skin](https://github.com/rstgroup/active_skin) gem (optional for better looking)
### Installation
##### 0. make sure you have activeadmin installed
##### 1. add gems to your gemfile:
```ruby
# gemfile
gem "activeadmin", "~> 0.6.3"
gem "active_skin" #for better looking
gem "active_i18n"
gem "haml" # because aa views are in haml
gem "redis" # when you are using Redis as a translations store
```
and then run: `bundle install`
##### 2. add rails initializer
create file active_i18n.rb in config/initializers
```ruby
# config/initializers/active_i18n.rb
ActiveI18n.config(
store: I18n::Backend::KeyValue.new(Redis.new),
except: ["testtranslationkey", "date", "datetime"]
)
```
**store**: sets translation store (in this example redis database - required)
**except**: removes some of the keys from the sidebar menu (optional)
If you are using redis you also will need to run the redis server `redis-server` in console
##### 3. define languages to translate
now having everything set up you could narrow the list of available languages and select base locale (if you don't - your users will see in selectboxes list of all available locales). You will do this in application.rb
```ruby
config.i18n.default_locale = :en
config.i18n.available_locales = [:en, :pl, :de] #placing :en again allows users to change default texts on your website
```
##### 4. add translation to the active admin menu
in your app/admin folder create new file called translations.rb (or whatever)
```ruby
ActiveAdmin.register_translation "Translations",
:parent => "CMS",
:priority => 2,
:label => "Translations"
```
hash is the same as in menu function in ActiveAdmin.
##### 5. add css and js
inside active_admin.js add active_i18n:
```
...
//= require active_admin/base
...
//= require active_i18n
```
and inside active_admin.css.scss also add active_i18n:
```scss
...
@import "active_admin/mixins";
@import "active_admin/base";
@import "active_skin";
...
@import "active_i18n";
```
##### and you are ready to go
## Contributing
1. Fork it ( http://github.com/rstgroup/active_i18n/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request