ActiveAdmin::Globalize

Makes it easy to translate your resource fields.

Installation

This version targets Rails 4 and greater and ActiveAdmin >= 1.0.0.pre.

gem 'activeadmin-globalize', '~> 1.0.0.pre', github: 'fabn/activeadmin-globalize', branch: 'develop'

As soon as ActiveAdmin 1.x is released to rubygems, I'll release the gem with no need for github dependency. See this issue for more details.

Previous version with support for Rails 3 is maintained in branch support/0.6.x

Require Assets

• active_admin.js: //= require active_admin/active_admin_globalize.js
• active_admin.css: *= require active_admin/active_admin_globalize

Your model

active_admin_translates :title, :description do
  validates_presence_of :title
end

In your Active Admin resource definition

Important note: I'm working on a fix for #4 because after AA deprecated and then removed #form_buffers the syntax shown below for form declaration doesn't work as is. See comments in code and discussion to fix it until I found a solution.

# For usage with strong parameters you'll need to permit them
permit_params translations_attributes: [:id, :locale, :title, :description, :_destroy]

index do
  # textual translation status
  translation_status
  # or with flag icons
  translation_status_flags
  # ...
  actions
end

# This was the original syntax proposed in this gem, however currently it doesn't work
form do |f|
  # ...
  f.translated_inputs "Translated fields", switch_locale: false do |t|
    t.input :title
    t.input :description
  end
  # ...
end

# Instead you have to nest the block inside an #inputs block and the title
# should be passed to the inputs method
form do |f|
  # ...
  f.inputs "Translated fields" do
    f.translated_inputs 'ignored title', switch_locale: false do |t|
      t.input :title
      t.input :description
    end
  end
  # ...
end

# You can also set locales to show in tabs
# For example we want to show English translation fields without tab, and want to show other languages within tabs
form do |f|
  # ...
  f.inputs do
    Globalize.with_locale(:en) do
      f.input :title
    end
  end
  f.inputs "Translated fields" do
    f.translated_inputs 'ignored title', switch_locale: false, available_locales: (I18n.available_locales - [:en]) do |t|
      t.input :title
      t.input :description
    end
  end
  # ...
end

# You can also set default language tab
# For example we want to make Bengali translation tab as default
form do |f|
  # ...
  f.inputs "Translated fields" do
    f.translated_inputs 'ignored title', switch_locale: false, default_locale: :bn do |t|
      t.input :title
      t.input :description
    end
  end
  # ...
end

If switch_locale is set, each tab will be rendered switching locale.

Hints

To use the dashed locale keys as 'pt-BR' or 'pt-PT' you need to convert a string to symbol (in application.rb)

  config.i18n.available_locales = [:en, :it, :de, :es, :"pt-BR"]

Credits

This work is based on original idea by @stefanoverna, I needed it for AA 0.6.x so I forked the original project and expanded it with more features.