Passing variables inside rails internationalization yml file
You can use the following syntax, like in the example:
dictionary:
email: &email Email
name: &name Name
password: &password Password
confirmation: &confirmation Confirmation
activerecord:
attributes:
user:
email: *email
name: *name
password: *password
password_confirmation: *confirmation
models:
user: User
users:
fields:
email: *email
name: *name
password: *password
confirmation: *confirmation
sessions:
new:
email: *email
password: *password
This example was taken from: Refactoring Ruby on Rails i18n YAML files using dictionaries
The short answer is, I believe, no you cannot do string interpolation in YAML the way you want using an alias.
In your case, what I would do is have something like the following in my locale file:
en:
site_name: "Site Name"
static_pages:
company:
description: ! '%{site_name} is an online system'
and then call in the appropriate view with the site name as a parameter:
t('.description', site_name: t('site_name'))
which would get you "Site Name is an online system"
.
However, if you're desperate to use aliases in your YAML file to concatenate strings together, the following completely unrecommended code would also work by having the string be two elements of an array:
en:
site_name: &site_name "Site Name"
static_pages:
company:
description:
- *site_name
- "is an online system"
and then you would join
the array in the appropriate view like this:
t('.description').join(" ")
Which would also get you "Site Name is an online system"
.
However, before you decide to go down this path, apart from the question that @felipeclopes linked to, have a look at:
- this StackOverflow answer regarding concatenating i18n strings (tl;dr Please don't for your translation team's sake).
- StackOverflow questions here and here that are similar to your question.