I18n retuns empty string?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello,

does any one know why: <%= I18n.l Time.now %> returns an empty string?

But it works when I run it on the console: I18n.l Time.now => "Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:38:32 +0100"

I can't think of anything that could cause that problem and Google didn't help... any help would be highly appreciated!

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No one?

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Nope, it works as expected for me on Rails 2.3.5 + ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]

Can you create a reproducible test case?

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How could a test case help me? Output of the console shows already that there's something messed up:

I18n.locale

I18n.locale => "DE-de"

I18n.l(Time.now, :formats => :default)

I18n.l(Time.now, :formats => :default) => "Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:49:37 +0100"

I18n.l(Time.now, :formats => :short)

I18n.l(Time.now, :formats => :short) => "Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:52:23 +0100"

I18n.l(Date.today, :formats => :default)

I18n.l(Date.today, :formats => :default) => "2010-04-04"

I18n.l(Date.today, :formats => :long)

I18n.l(Date.today, :formats => :long) => "2010-04-04"

Locale is "DE-de" which is German but Time and Date is still being displayed in the English format. Furtermore it doesn't make a difference if I change the formats argument which is not how it's meant to be as well.

There musst be really something screwed up but I have no idea what that could be.... really frustrating.

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By the way: It doesn't matter if I use Ruby 1.8.6 or 1.9.1.

In the posting above I'm using 1.8.6 and this is 1.9.1: Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.5) D:/ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:119:Warning: Gem::Dependency#version_requirements is deprecated and will be removed on or after August 2010. Use #requirement

I18n.locale

I18n.locale => :"en-US"

I18n.l Time.now

I18n.l Time.now => "Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:55:11 +0100"

I18n.locale = "de-DE"

I18n.locale = "de-DE" => "de-DE"

I18n.l Time.now

I18n.l Time.now => "Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:55:23 +0100"

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Again, for you -- not for me. So reducing the problem to the smallest possible test case that other people can try is one way to get help.

In creating that test case you may discover the cause (some plugin or gem conflict, or who knows what).

FWIW,

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But what exactly would you want to test in that test case?

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By "test case" here I mean the smallest possible application that reproduces the "empty string" error you're describing.

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Well, I created a new application - no plugins or anything and it worked.

10

By the way I'm using globalize2 for model translation. Could that be the problem?

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Presumably it could -- so add it to your new app and see :slight_smile:

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I figured out that there's a problem with the .yml file. When I remove my yml file everything works just fine but when I add my .yml file with my customized language strings like: de-DE:   time:     formats:       default: "%A, %e. %B %Y, %H:%M Uhr"

It returns an empty string. I just can't find anything wrong with that default: ?

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Heinz Strunk wrote:

I figured out that there's a problem with the .yml file. When I remove my yml file everything works just fine but when I add my .yml file with my customized language strings like: de-DE:   time:     formats:       default: "%A, %e. %B %Y, %H:%M Uhr"

It returns an empty string. I just can't find anything wrong with that default: ?

Got it! I had an outdated yml file. %e isn't supported anymore and therefore returns nothing. Just had to replace the %e with a %d.