Using Mobility to Store Translations

These are slides of "Using Mobility to Store Translations", a talk I gave at a Ruby Ireland meet-up.

Repo used for Mobility and setting of locale demos: https://github.com/thealiilman/fresh-translation

My Website: https://ali-ilman.com/
My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliilman/
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/thealiilman

Transcript

1. HALLO 🤓
2. • I’m a software engineer from Malaysia • Website ali-ilman.com • LinkedIn https:/ /www.linkedin.com/in/aliilman/ • Twitter @thealiilman About Me
3. Using Mobility to store translations
4. The State of Translation Gems in the Ruby Ecosystem
5. THE STATE OF TRANSLATION GEMS IN THE RUBY ECOSYSTEM Globalize • Mature • Supports only one type of storage, a translation table for the model • Inactively maintained. Maintainers suggest migrating to Mobility
6. THE STATE OF TRANSLATION GEMS IN THE RUBY ECOSYSTEM Traco • Mature • Supports only one type of storage, columns in the same table • Maintained
7. ENTER MOBILITY
8. ENTER MOBILITY Notable features and concepts in Mobility • Store translations with various strategies • Add plugins where necessary or globally • Encapsulates logic for each strategy through “Backends”
9. What makes Mobility different to Globalize and Traco?
10. Mobility gives us the ability to set configuration for each translatable attribute
11. MOBILITY DEMO
12. One thing to be aware of when setting locale
13. Locale can leak across requests when setting of locale isn’t made throughout all controllers.
14. Consider this example
16. When requests to /german and / or /irish endpoints are made, /english endpoint will use either German or Irish locale. This isn’t the correct behaviour.
17. There are two ways to rectify this. Next slide shows the first way.
19. Now, every time we make a request to /english, the locale will be set to English. Next slide shows another way to prevent locale leakage by using I18n.with_locale, which ensures that after executing the block, the locale will be set to whatever the value was before.
21. GO RAIBH MAITH AGAT