Comments on: Multilingual page caching in Ruby on Rails

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:49:44 +0000

Works really well. It took me forever to get localization based on subdomains working. And boy was I mad when I realized that it destroys my page caching. very, very glad I found this page. Thanks a lot!

I use de.foo.bar and en.foo.bar in my project with de and en as locale names, so I didn’t have to use cookies, but used:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+?)\.
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ cache/%1/$1.html [QSA]

Also I noticed that my root isn’t cached as locale/index.html but as locale.html so I went for:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+?)\.
RewriteRule ^$ cache/%1.html [QSA]

With built-in rails 2.3 localization:

def cache_page content, path
super content, I18n.locale + path
end

By: Valery

Valery — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:05:38 +0000

For ngnix it would be like
server {
…
set $locale bg;
if ($http_cookie ~ ‘locale=(en|bg)’) {
set $locale $1;
}
…
location / {
…
try_files /maintenance.html /cache/$locale/$uri.html /cache/$locale/$uri/index.html /cache/$locale/$uri $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html @modrails; $

…
}

By: jm

jm — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:34:27 +0000

Great stuff ! Thank you very much for this !

Actually i use subdomains to store language and have the same kind of configuration for nginx like this :

set $lang fr; if ($host ~* "^en\.yaka") { set $lang en; } if ($host ~* "^es\.yaka") { set $lang es; } if ($host ~* "^nl\.yaka") { set $lang nl; }
and then i use $lang in the redirection stuff…

By: wordpress htaccess

wordpress htaccess — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:11:39 +0000

Whoah! This is an awesome writeup szeryf! I will be coming back to read it again in a bit!

~ AskApache