Middleman and I18n: having some issues

Question

I have activated I18n in middleman like so:

activate :i18n, mount_at_root: :de

Now I'd like to be redirected from / to /de automatically. Is this possible?

Also, I wonder why middleman auto-assigns class index (for german) and en_index (for english) using the page_classes helper? This doesn't make much sense - it's the same page, so it should use the class index for both english and german. Or did I miss something?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 20 '14 at 13:29

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If you :mount_at_root => :de german will be your default language and thus not prefixed.

If you set :mount_at_root => :false all languages should be prefixed.

I have successfully used the following configuration to set de/en paths.

This will also create page_classes such as as en en_index and de de_index.

activate :i18n, :mount_at_root => :false, :langs => [:de, :en]

http://middlemanapp.com/advanced/localization/

Redirecting from / to /de is done using redirect "index.html", :to => "de/index.html".

To prevent page_classes from prefixing the classes with the language, overwrite the helper like so:

helpers do
  def page_classes(path=current_path.dup, options={})
    super(path.sub(/^[a-z]{2}\//, ''), options)
  end
end

edited Aug 20 '14 at 13:29

Joshua Muheim

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answered Aug 19 '14 at 09:33

mlnmln

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I guess you don't need to explicitly set `path: ":locale"`, it seems to be default. – Joshua Muheim Aug 20 '14 at 07:39
Yes, that might be true. Beside of that, was the answer helpful to you? – mlnmln Aug 20 '14 at 13:22
I updated the answer. Now it can be marked as correct. Thank you. – Joshua Muheim Aug 20 '14 at 13:30
Thanks, the edit is fine with me. I misread the second part of your question and didn't notice that you wanted to get rid of the language prefix in the body classes. – mlnmln Aug 20 '14 at 16:01

Middleman and I18n: having some issues

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