# Organizing translations with I18n::Cascade and I18n::MissingTranslations **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails I18n\ **Created:** [February 13, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/organizing-translations-with-i18n-cascade-and-i18n-missingtranslations/203123 "2011-02-13T14:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/organizing-translations-with-i18n-cascade-and-i18n-missingtranslations/203123/1 "2011-02-13T14:16:02Z")
I thought I’d drop you a note that I’ve written up a few things about what tools we are using to organize translations at work. I get asked these questions a lot so maybe it makes sense to spam the list with this 🙂 [http://svenfuchs.com/2011/2/11/organizing-translations-with-i18n-cascade-and-i18n-missingtranslations](http://svenfuchs.com/2011/2/11/organizing-translations-with-i18n-cascade-and-i18n-missingtranslations) What other techniques/conventions do people apply? Comments welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Sven\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Sven\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sven_F)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/organizing-translations-with-i18n-cascade-and-i18n-missingtranslations/203123/2 "2011-02-13T15:52:03Z")
Hi These advices are really good. I myself made the mistake to aim for DRY .yml files I have an addition to the string class .to\_local(key) that allows me to use my own coventions for key and that works really good For example I have one enumeration.class.variable for enumerations and one key models and one key controllers etc Ialso have one key views to be DRY but I will now change that to the deafults in Rails 3 (i.e controller.view.word) I also use a set of common flash messages for the common actions (sucess and failure) Finally I use a method that stores translations of flash messages as flash.controller.action.flash\_key (ie. error\_1,error\_2…, success, warning etc) * * * Hans M. St: Larsgatan 50, 58224 Linkping, Sweden Phone: +46708371202 13 feb 2011 kl. 14.15 skrev Sven F.: