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I'm building an app in Rails with SSR ERB views. In the app I'm building, each user is associated with a brand (i.e., a company). Based on the brand the user is associated with, the app must present the "correct" branded experience -- including styling, images, copy, etc. I'd like to figure out a clean way to pull the logic to pick the appropriate copy out of the views.

For example, I'd love to be able to replace:

<% if @user.brand_foo? %>
  <h1>This is my favorite brand</h1>
<% else %>
  <h1>No, really, this is my favorite brand</h1>
<% end %>

with something like

# in some (yml?) file

brand_foo:
  product_page:
    super_good_header: "This is my favorite brand"

brand_bar:
  product_page:
    super_good_header: "No, really, this is my favorite brand"


# in the view

<h1><%= branded("product_page.super_good_header", @user.brand) %></h1>

I've been thinking about leaning on I18n, and having each set of copy live as a locale, but I'm worried that that decision might bite me later down the line when I actually need language localization.

How have you done this in your apps? Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Daniel Thorne
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you could have an helper like user_branded that would read the yml configuration file and retrieve the correct string based on the path (e.g. split the input string by ".").

Dorian
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