FractualI18n

Co-locate Rails translation files alongside your views. Instead of maintaining a single large config/locales/en.yml, place small .yml files next to the templates they belong to. The gem automatically namespaces translation keys based on the file path.

Given this structure:

app/views/users/index.html.erb
app/views/users/index.yml
app/views/users/_form.html.erb
app/views/users/_form.yml

And index.yml:

en:
  title: "Users"

The translation is accessible via t(".title") in index.html.erb, which resolves through the key users.index.title. Partial prefixes (underscores) are stripped automatically — _form.yml maps to users.form.

Add to your Gemfile:

gem "fractual_i18n"

Include the backend in a Rails initializer:

# config/initializers/fractual_i18n.rb
I18n::Backend::Simple.include(FractualI18n::Backend)

Add view translation files to the I18n load path:

# config/application.rb
config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join("app/views/**/*.yml")]

That's it. The gem's railtie automatically detects app/views as a fractual path. In development, newly added .yml files are picked up without a server restart.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.