Defaulting locale if locale missing in Rails

Question

I have my web app translated into english and croatian. English being set as default locale in my config/application.rb and enabled all fallbacks:

config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('my', 'locales', '*.{rb,yml}').to_s]
config.i18n.default_locale = :en
config.assets.precompile += %w(*.png *.jpg *.jpeg *.gif)
I18n.enforce_available_locales = true
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
config.i18n.fallbacks = [:en]
config.i18n.fallbacks = {'es' => 'en', 'fr' => 'en', 'de' => 'en'}

My config/routes.rb are defined like this:

scope "(:locale)", :locale => /en|hr/ do
  root :to => 'static_pages#home'
  match 'signin', to: 'sessions#new', via: 'get'
  match 'signout', to: 'sessions#destroy', via: 'delete'
  match '/signup', to: 'users#new', via: 'get'
  match '/about',   to: 'static_pages#about',   via: 'get'
  resources :sessions, only: [:new, :create, :destroy]
  resources :relationships, only: [:create, :destroy]

  resources :users do
    member do
      get :following, :followers
    end
  end

end

Everything works perfect when a user is using the app and switches between the languages, but if a user goes to the url and types in for example "es" instead of "en" or "hr" I get a routing error page with the error description: No route matches [GET] "/es/signin"

How can I make it fallback to english locale, if the whole .yml file in the locales folder is missing?

Maybe it's because of you specified exact values for locale parameter (`:locale => /en|hr/`)? — peresleguine, Jul 16 '14 at 10:08
I have to have those values defined like that (since I only have those two). If I remove them the whole app isn't working. — Marko Ćilimković, Jul 16 '14 at 10:12
If you prefix path with anything except `en` or `hr` it will cause routing error. What will be the output if you add `es` to regex? `:locale => /en|hr|es/`? — peresleguine, Jul 16 '14 at 10:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '14 at 11:24

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Add es or any other locale to your regex in config/routes.rb: :locale => /en|hr|es/. Anything except those values will cause routing error.

answered Jul 16 '14 at 11:24

peresleguine

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This is an ok solution if the user is only going to type in 'es'. But if he types anything else the error page will be shown again.I'd like to find a way to avoid that. – Marko Ćilimković Jul 16 '14 at 14:55
It's ok to see routing error in development and 404 in production if user types manually `/asdasdasdasd/signin`. I suggest to list expected locales and forget about unexpected behaviour. – peresleguine Jul 16 '14 at 15:17

Defaulting locale if locale missing in Rails

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