# Advice for image folders in an i18n app **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails I18n\ **Created:** [January 31, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/advice-for-image-folders-in-an-i18n-app/182645 "2010-01-31T22:42:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cmaxvv)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/advice-for-image-folders-in-an-i18n-app/182645/1 "2010-01-31T22:42:46Z")
Hey all. I’m starting my first i18n app and pondering how to organise my images and stylesheets. I can think of a couple of ways but thought that this problem has probably already been solved many times by people much more experienced than me. Here’s what i have so far anyway, i’m grateful for any advice. option 1 - complete duplication. english images in /images/en german images in /images/de all images, even the ones that don’t have any text in them, are saved in every folder. stylesheets are also duplicated, so you load eg /stylesheets/en/admin.css and that points to images in /images/en To deal with this duplication i’d probably have a master folder containing all the images that are the same in all languages, and a master stylesheet, and then a script to copy images to the various localised folders and to duplicate the stylesheets around, gsubbing (eg) /images/locale to /images/en or whatever. This seems very complicated but in terms of what each user can see it’s pretty easy to get your head around. option 2 - shared global folder and localised folders. have a structure like /images/global - all the images with no text /images/en - english specific images /images/de - german specific This is harder to deal with from a stylesheet point of view, although again i could have a script which copies a master stylesheet to various localised versions with ‘locale’ replaced by the actual locale.