How to retrieve all translations from yml files in Rails I18n

Question

I'm guessing that rails stores all the parsed translations yml files in a sort of array/hash. Is there a way to access this?

For example, if I've a file:

en:
  test_string: "testing this"
  warning: "This is just an example

Could I do something like, I18n.translations_store[:en][:test_string] ? I could parse the yml file with YAML::load, but in my case I've splitted the yml files in subfolders for organization, and I'm pretty sure that rails already parsed them all.

Answer 1

You got to call a private method on the backend. This is how you get access:

translations = I18n.backend.send(:translations)
translations[:en][:test_string] # => "testing this"

Answer 2

As per 8xx8's comment, a simpler version of:

I18n.t(:foo)
I18n.backend.send(:translations)[:en][:test_string]

is

I18n.t(".")[:test_string]

This mitigates having to both preload the translations or specify the locale.