Installation of i18n

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I desperately try to put in place i18n for my project, in order mainly to translate date/time formats, but the information I get from all the different sources is either incomplete or contradictory :

Some say translation files should be placed in config/locales, others in app/locales Some say they should be a yaml file, others in rb file ...

My current configuration is the following :

1) I installed the i18n gem version 0.1.0 2) I created the translation file myproject/locales/fr-FR/fr-FR.yml, containing :

"fr-FR:   date:     formats:            default: "%d/%m/%Y" ...<all the other formats>"

3) I created the initializer file myproject/config/initializers/ locale.rb, containing :

I18n.load_path += Dir.glob("#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/locales/**/*.yml") I18n.default_locale = "fr-FR"

However, my dates are still in english and I18n.localize(Date.today) results in => I18n::MissingTranslationData: translation missing: fr- FR, date, formats   from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/ active_support/...

What's wrong ?

Thank you for oyur help

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my files:

#file config/locale/en.yml en:    date:      formats:        ddate: "%d.%m.%Y"

   time:      formats:        ddate: "%Y-%m-%d"        dtime: "%H:%M"

# and usage (somewhere in helper)

def showdate(date)    l(Time.at(date), :format => :ddate) end

tom

Sacredceltic wrote:

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I get a "config/locales/fr-FR.rb:1: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting $end"

Should the "en.yml' file end with a "end" ?

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replace tab chars (\t) with spaces ...

Sacredceltic wrote:

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Yes, thank you, I just realized it was such an issue and I re-sourced the file.