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:

Answer 1

The default I18n backend is I18n::Backend::Simple, which does not expose the translations to you. (I18.backend.translations is a protected method.)

This isn't generally a good idea, but if you really need this info and can't parse the file, you can extend the backend class.

class I18n::Backend::Simple
  def translations_store
    translations
  end
end

You can then call I18n.backend.translations_store to get the parsed translations. You probably shouldn't rely on this as a long term strategy, but it gets you the information you need right now.