Translate engines routes

[bricesanchez]

Hi all!

I would like to have multi-language routes for refinerycms engines, like refinerycms-inquiries :

/fr/nous-joindre
/en/contact

/fr/nous-joindre/merci
/en/contact/thank_you

I started the discussion here : refinery/refinerycms-inquiries#155 (comment)

I've seen :
https://github.com/enriclluelles/route_translator
and
https://github.com/warantesbr/refinerycms-translate-routes

I like the fact to translate routes in a locale .yml file.

How and where could we implement this feature?

@simi @parndt

[simi]

@parndt feel free to assign me. I have few ideas.

[parndt]

@simi done.. thanks 😄

[bricesanchez]

Instead of translated routes, could we mount engines as a page part ?

No more hardcoded links in link_url and we could mount multiple engines on a page.

We could also mount engine as we display them in /refinery/users/my-username/edit

What do you think of that ?

[parndt]

@bricesanchez what do you mean "as a page part"?

[bricesanchez]

@parndt

We have 2 features :

• page parts and the ability to add and remove page parts in a content page,
• and we have the tab of refinerycms-page-images.

Could we develop a way to add an engine on a content page when we add a page part and display it on admin like a tab and call for it on frontend with a new method?

It's a huge change in the way we use page parts... :(

[parndt]

Oh, you mean custom tabs like refinerycms-page-images has. There's an API and everything, just nothing hooks to it and it's probably not built well enough.. Do you have any suggestions for implementation?

[bricesanchez]

@parndt no, i'm sorry. My hope is on @simi idea

[simi]

My initial idea is to mock localized in routes with simple yield when it is undefined and wrap all routes with localized. You can use some gem using localized in routing to translate routes. But I'm trying to dig more into routing. Maybe some cleaner way should be accessible.

[parndt]

Can we do this transparently to the developer? This is something like what the routing-filter extension gave us previously.

[simi]

I think it is. I'll ping you with another ideas soon.

[simi]

routing-filter was able to add :locale prefix for example, but it wasn't able to translate route.

[parndt]

Very true. Your solution would be even better.

[bricesanchez]

Hi @simi and @parndt,

Do you have news about this issue ?

Thank you!