title: Set language in Devise
body: <p>I am a noob in Ruby/Rails and I am creating my first project now.</p>
  
  <p>I am using <a href="https://github.com/plataformatec/devise" rel="nofollow">Devise gem</a> for authentication system. I have installed it and I am on fight to change the default messages from "en" (default language) to "pt-BR".</p>
  
  <p>I have a file called <code>devise.pt-BR.yml</code> inside <code>/config/locales/</code> with all translations for this language and I have followed a few tips but when I restart the server, I still get "en" as the default language.</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to have two or more languages, I just need to work with "pt-BR" instead "en".</p>
  
  <p>My environment:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Fedora 16<br>
    Ruby 1.9.2p320<br>
    Rails 3.2.6<br>
    Devise 2.1.2  </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><code>/config/application.rb</code> content (look at bottom):</p>
  
  <pre><code>require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)
  
  require 'rails/all'
  
  if defined?(Bundler)
    # If you precompile assets before deploying to production, use this line
    Bundler.require(*Rails.groups(:assets =&gt; %w(development test)))
    # If you want your assets lazily compiled in production, use this line
    # Bundler.require(:default, :assets, Rails.env)
  end
  
  module Foo
    class Application &lt; Rails::Application
      # Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified here.
      # Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
      # -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.
  
      # Custom directories with classes and modules you want to be autoloadable.
      # config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/extras)
  
      # Only load the plugins named here, in the order given (default is alphabetical).
      # :all can be used as a placeholder for all plugins not explicitly named.
      # config.plugins = [ :exception_notification, :ssl_requirement, :all ]
  
      # Activate observers that should always be running.
      # config.active_record.observers = :cacher, :garbage_collector, :forum_observer
  
      # Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone.
      # Run "rake -D time" for a list of tasks for finding time zone names. Default is UTC.
      # config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US &amp; Canada)'
  
      # The default locale is :en and all translations from config/locales/*.rb,yml are auto loaded.
      # config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('my', 'locales', '*.{rb,yml}').to_s]
      # config.i18n.default_locale = :de
  
      # Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
      config.encoding = "utf-8"
  
      # Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file.
      config.filter_parameters += [:password]
  
      # Enable escaping HTML in JSON.
      config.active_support.escape_html_entities_in_json = true
  
      # Use SQL instead of Active Record's schema dumper when creating the database.
      # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper,
      # like if you have constraints or database-specific column types
      # config.active_record.schema_format = :sql
  
      # Enforce whitelist mode for mass assignment.
      # This will create an empty whitelist of attributes available for mass-assignment for all models
      # in your app. As such, your models will need to explicitly whitelist or blacklist accessible
      # parameters by using an attr_accessible or attr_protected declaration.
      config.active_record.whitelist_attributes = true
  
      # Enable the asset pipeline
      config.assets.enabled = true
  
      # Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets
      config.assets.version = '1.0'
      config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('devise', 'locales', '*.{rb,yml}').to_s]
      config.i18n.default_locale = :"pt-BR"
      I18n.locale = :"pt-BR"
    end
  end
  </code></pre>