However one thing is veeerry disappearing me, (or maybe i dont know how-to), NO option to know status of translations…

Okay, imagine we have Staticpage model with some fields to be translated.
so in .rb >
translates :name, :abstract, :body
thats ok, rest of stuff is “automatically” mapped by globalization plugin.
BUT (or butt:) ! in views/staticpages/list.rhtml you dont have anything that tell you about translation in different languages.
so you need to shake a lizard and do some work, look here:
in model:

def translation_languages
reply = “”
LOCALES.each do | local |
iso639 = local[0]
flag = local[1].slice(3..4).downcase + “.png”
if iso639 != “en”
# do not display “en” language
n = ModelTranslation.find :all,
:conditions => ["globalize_languages.iso_639_1 = ? AND globalize_translations.item_id=? AND                         globalize_translations.language_id = globalize_languages.id", iso639, id],
:joins => “INNER JOIN globalize_languages”
if n.size == 0 #|| Locale.language_code != iso639
tClass = “tr_incomplete”
tTitle = “Not translated”
else
tTitle = “Translated”
tClass = “tr_complete”
end
reply+= “<span class=’#{tClass}’ title=’#{tTitle}’>
<img src=’/images/flags/#{flag}’ />
</span>”
end
end
return reply
end

when in list.rhtml:
<%= staticpage.translation_languages %>
will render all flags with “Translated” “Not Translated” titles.

you must have /images/flags/*.png appropriate flags, also you must have two css classes tr_incomplete and tr_complete.

However i tried many ways todo effricient debug (thru db logging, exceptions caught etc..), but none of them was perfect to meet my needs.

So, why not to make my plugin that i can use anywhere ?

Installation:

Do svn export svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/act-as-debug at your vendor/plugins folder to get latest version.

|| read more || go to Rubyforge to download.

This plugin come to replace logger.info (not actually replace this method) to be much more effricient and detailed.

to use it, simply do:
act_as_debug <VARIABLE>, {OPTIONS}
<VARIABLE> any type to be inspected.
OPTIONS:
:file => “filename” -will be use /log/ subfolder to append log to <filename> file.

samples:

act_as_debug @pages will log to default application log.
act_as_debug @pages, :file => “pages_inspect” will append to log file ‘pages_inspect.log’ in /log/ folder.

Also you can use debug instead of act_as_debug. (alias)

More will come soon !!

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