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Temporarily Change Locale

Michaël Hoste

Michaël Hoste

Founder & CEO

Who is Michaël ?

Michael is the founder of Translation.io. He is always interested in hearing your feedback on the product.

Feel free to get in touch: michael@translation.io

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Sometimes it can be very useful to temporarily change the current locale to perform an action and then directly switch back to the original locale. For example you need to deliver an email to a user in its own preferred locale.

Rails I18n ships with the I18n.with_locale method and Translation.io is of course fully compatible with it.

Here is a basic example of usage :

I18n.locale #=> :en

I18n.with_locale(:fr) do
  I18n.locale #=> :fr
end

I18n.locale #=> :en

And a real world example in a mailer :

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default from: 'noreply@translation.io'

  def invitation(user)
    I18n.with_locale(user.locale) do
      mail({
        :subject => _("You have been invited"),
        :to      => user.email
      })
    end
  end
end
Last update: August 07, 2014
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