Rails 3 locale - path to locale tag too long?

Question

I've just noticed silly error with locales - when the path for specific locale tag is too long e.g. t('placeholders.organization.participantsNo') then there is a locale translation missing error, but when I modify locales on my site and in locale file to t('placeholders.org.partNo') it works fine - why? Is that means locale tag paths has limited chars to use?

Answer 1

A translation's key is not limited in the number of characters - a meaningful and nested namespace schema is even encouraged.

Could it be that placeholders.organization already has a translation and therefore can't have the sub translation participantsNo ?

In any case the origin of your translations missing error is not coming from the number of characters in the key.