ignore specific files about rails HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @skyporter,

Actually, YAML files are almost always prefixed by one, or maybe a couple of keys, but not more.

So if you want to completely ignore a YAML file you can add something like this:

config.ignored_key_prefixes = [
    'root_key_of_your_yaml_file.', # don't forget the trailing dot
 ]

If you happen to have a lot of first-level keys in your YAML file, you can still do something like this:

config.ignored_key_prefixes = YAML.load(File.read('config/locales/ignored.en.yml'))['en'].keys.collect { |k| "#{k}." }
# => ["admin.", "enumerize.", "activerecord."]

It's not "neat" but it should work too.

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Hi,

Thanks for the alternative suggestions, unfortunately not applicable to my case as I have a file that only contains backend translations.

For example, I have a Customer model which should be only translated in only one language. I manage that by storing "customers keys" on a dedicated file backend-activerecord.fr.yml:

fr:
  activerecord:
    models:
      customer:
        one: "Fiche client"
        other: "Fiches clients"

and my generic activerecord.fr.yml file contain all others keys:

fr:
  activerecord:
    models:
      user: Utilisateur
      ...

As suggested, my only alternative with translation.io is to do that:

  config.ignored_key_prefixes = [
    "activerecord.models.customer.",
    "activerecord.attributes.customer."
  ]

It would have been easier with the exclusion of the file.

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Now I understand why you need something like this.

That's not a very common YAML structure and I'm not sure we should add a new ignored_yaml_files configuration for this.

Wouldn't it possible for you to add a small helper method to ignore some specific keys of you models?

Something like this:

def ignore_for_backend(models)
  models.collect { |m| ["activerecord.models.#{m}.", "activerecord.attributes.#{m}."] }.flatten
end

config.ignored_key_prefixes = ignore_for_backend(['customer', 'projects'])

I'm going to leave that issue open.

We could consider adding this option if many users need it.

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Yes, I can probably code a script to automate this. Meanwhile, I can always add the keys one by one.
Thanks for your help.

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