What naming conventions do you use when writing i18n yaml files?

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Do you follow naming conventions when writing i18n yaml files? If so, what are they?

For example, say you have a “Save changes” button that PUTs to users_controller.update. What would you call it?

users.edit.update_button

users.edit.updatebutton

users.edit.button_update

users.edit.save_changes

etc…

What about flash messages? I have them organized as such now:

controller.action.flash_success and controller.action.flash_error.

Any thoughts on naming conventions? Dashes? Underscores?

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For your first example, Rails already has built-in keys for submit buttons that you can change globally:

en:

helpers:

submit:

create: “Create %{model}”

update: “Update %{model}”

Or only for a specific model:

en:

helpers:

submit:

post:

create: “Create the new post”

update: “Update existing post”

Those are used automatically when you use <%= f.submit %>