Heroku and i18n Problems - ruby-on-rails

I'm having trouble getting i18n to work on heroku.
I set:
I18n.default_locale = :de
in my environment.rb
and the translation is in config/locales/de.yml
works perfect on my local machines but not so on Heroku.
On heroku everything is in english.
I don't think I need a special gem like i18n gem, cause I don't have it on my local machine either.
Maybe someone has a solution to this?

Try to set the default local like this in your config.environment.rb:
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
# ...
config.i18n.default_locale = :de
end

The only solution I found that worked for me, on heroku, was setting it manually in the application controller.
application_controller.rb
before_filter :set_locale
def set_locale
I18n.locale = 'fr-QC' || I18n.default_locale
end
cheers

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Here is in local.rb under config/initializers/:
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config/application.rb
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config/initializers/i18n.rb
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I18n.fallbacks.map(:"zh-CN" => :en)
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https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/wiki/Fallbacks
http://web.archive.org/web/20151019133539/paulgoscicki.com/archives/2015/02/enabling-i18n-locale-fallbacks-in-rails/

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Edit: (to be clear and to the point)
I want the following to work on heroku: "11/13/2011".to_datetime, meaning I need the dates to be in english format. Thanks
I've set this the i18n locale in my application.rb
config.i18n.default_locale = :en
config.i18n.locale = :en
In the heroku console:
I18n.locale
=> :en
So it seems like it's set correctly.
But when I do:
"11/13/2011".to_datetime
=> ArgumentError: invalid date
Noooo!
Do you have any idea of what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks.
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Just a ruby version "problem".
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Is it possible to make rails i18n locales fallback to each other?

I'm using Rails 3 with Globalize3 0.2.0.beta4
Ideally I need :fr to fallback to :en and vice versa.
There are cases when only a French translation is available and I need to show it even if the locale is :en.
I tried
config.i18n.fallbacks = { :fr => :en, :en => :fr }
but somewhat unsurprisingly it causes a stack level too deep error.
I'm changing my answer.
To enable fallbacks, add the following to your environment.rb file:
#support for locale fallbacks
require "i18n/backend/fallbacks"
I18n::Backend::Simple.send(:include, I18n::Backend::Fallbacks)
Then, you can enable circular fallbacks like you were trying to, eg:
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In this case, if something is missing in the en locale, it'll check the fr locale, and then the other way around. I don't get any errors running this.
Source: http://batsov.com/articles/2012/09/12/setting-up-fallback-locale-s-in-rails-3/
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config.i18n.fallbacks = [:en, :fr]
Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to set up just two locales to fall back to each other.
In the end I monkey patched Globalize3. Not great as I have to update the patch whenever the site needs a new locale, but hey, it worked.
module Globalize
class << self
def fallbacks(locale = self.locale)
case locale
when :en then [:en, :fr]
when :fr then [:fr, :en]
end
end
end
end
This seems to have changed to this:
Globalize.fallbacks = {:en => [:en, :fr], :fr => [:fr, :en]}
Got from the official docs:
https://github.com/globalize/globalize#fallback-locales-to-each-other
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# Custom I18n fallbacks
config.after_initialize do
I18n.fallbacks = I18n::Locale::Fallbacks.new(at: :"de-DE", ch: :"de-DE", gb: :"en-US")
end
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