In Ruby on Rails, how do I default to a locale when it is omitted from the url?

I have a Rails app with some internationalization, I have it setting the locale through a url parameter, like this:

/en/post/show/4 for english

/ja/post/show/4 for japanese

My routes:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
  map.connect "", :controller => "post", :action => "index"
  map.connect "/:locale", :controller => "post", :action => "index"
  map.connect "post/show/:id/:tag_title", :controller => "post", :action => "show", :requirements => {:id => /\d+/}, :path_prefix => '/:locale'
  map.connect ":controller/:action/:id.:format", :requirements => {:id => /[-\d]+/}, :path_prefix => '/:locale'
  map.connect ":controller/:action/:id"开发者_Python百科, :requirements => {:id => /[-\d]+/}, :path_prefix => '/:locale'
  map.connect ":controller/:action.:format", :path_prefix => '/:locale'
  map.connect ":controller/:action", :path_prefix => '/:locale'
end

What I want is to have it so when the locale part of the url is omitted it will use the default locale. So this:

/post/show/4 is the same as

/en/post/show/4

and will set the locale to english.

What would be a good way to accomplish this? Thank you!

Find out the current language from the URL and set the I18n.locale. For example: = I18n.locale = 'en'

See also some great documentation.

I plan to implement the same approach in my app, though I have not tried it yet. I'm going to use optional route segments, like

match '(:locale/)post/show/:id' => 'posts#show'

though I think it only works in Rails 3.