BrowserCMSI: Humane Content Management for Rails

This is a fork to extract UI strings and make it possible to use BrowserCMS in languages other than English. I am using the built in I18n module with the simple backend, so there is no need to install or do anything special.

Installation

gem install browsercmsi

Creating a new project

  • run bcmsi my_project
  • edit the file config/initializers/i18n.rb and set the default locale (at the moment only English and Spanish are available)
  • run rake db:migrate
  • start your server

Translating BrowserCMS

If your are not already familiar with Rails Internationalization API, it might be a good idea for you to take a quick look at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html

To translate BrowserCMS' UI to a new language you need to create your new locale files and 12 images for the main toolbar.

Creating locale files

  • Create a new directory under config/locales/bcms and name it after the locale you intend to use. For example, if you are going to translate BCMS to French, you would create a directory named fr.
  • Copy over all the files from one of the available locales to your newly created locale directory and change the locale key.
  • Restart your server and start translating.

Note about locale keys Although neither Rails or BrowserCMSI really care which locale keys you use, if you use the ISO 639-1 code for your language, BrowserCMSI will set CKEditor locale automatically for you. If you use non-standard locale keys, CKEditor will fallback to English.

Toolbar images

BCMS uses 4 sets of images for the links in the main toolbar: My Dashboard, Sitemap, Content Library and Administration. You need to create one image for the up, over and active states of each link. You can use a .psd file located in doc/design on this repository.

Once you have your images, you need to place them in a new directory under public/images/cms/locales. Name this directory exactly the same as your locale files directory. (fr to continue with the french example).

Locale files organization

Contact

Juan Alvarez com{dot}mac[[at]]alce