Spree Extension: Simple Product Translations

This extension allows you to translate product details on an intuitive way based on tabs. Currently it will load tabs for all locales in I18n.available_locales.

Installation

In your Gemfile you just add:

gem 'spree_simple_product_translations'

Then install the gem:

bundle install

Then copy the migrations and assets to your spree application:

rake spree_product_translations:install
rake spree_simple_product_translations:install

To apply the Smoothness theme to the jQuery UI tabs add the following to app/assets/stylesheets/admin/all.css:

*= require jquery-ui-smoothness    

Finally migrate your database:

rake db:migrate

If you have pre-existing data, you'll need to run this rake task:

rake spree:extensions:product_translations:globalize_legacy_data

Fallbacks for empty translations

You might want to use fallbacks to the default locale if you haven't entered translations. By default fallbacks will only be loaded if the translation is nil. If you're entering translations through the forms, empty translations will be set to an empty string, causing fallbacks to not work. If you want to enable fallbacks for empty translations you can simply set the following configuration in an initializer in your app:

Spree::Config.set :fallbacks_for_empty_translations => true

Open issues

Empty forms (properties & taxons)

Spree is using symbols instead of objects to define form_for's for properties and taxons. This causes the forms to be empty. This can be fixed by overriding both edit pages with the changes found in this pull request.

To add in future releases

• Add form to:
  • Prototype
  • Taxonomy
• Tests
• Configuration option for which locales te load
• Better design?

Patches

Feel free to fork this project and provide with any necesary patches. Tests are welcome too.

Copyright (c) 2011 Jeroen Jacobs, released under the New BSD License