title: Rails i18n Config File Management Best Practices
body: <p>I'm in the process doing an i18n conversion of a RoR website. I'm using Sven Fuchs textmate bundle along with NewDesk's translate plugin. I've started with the yaml files provided by Sven Fuchs here (<a href="http://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/tree/3e1994d137e1785689e39f6e957087d3baed0011/rails/locale" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/tree/3e1994d137e1785689e39f6e957087d3baed0011/rails/locale</a>)</p>
  
  <p>I'm rapidly seeing keys getting out of sync between files, managing between development instances is becoming painful, updates in prod using the "FROM=en TO=ru rake translate:google" task or "rake translate:merge_keys"</p>
  
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  <li>What are best practices for the proliferation of yaml translation files?</li>
  <li>What are best practices for the synchronization of yaml files across environments?</li>
  </ul>