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

[Mohamad El-Husseini]

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?

[Tim Shaffer]

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 %>