Rails - Jan 2009 - Separating views by locale?

I''m thinking this has to be a common question, but thus far I
haven''t
found it, maybe somebody can point me in the right direction.

If I''ve got a controller Foo, and a page views/foo/index.rhtml, and I
want to handle multiple languages, I''m thinking that one way to go
would
be to create views/foo/en/index.rhtml, views/foo/fr/index.rhtml, ... and
so on for each supported locale.  Then instead of the default:
  def index
    render :action=>:index
  end

I could do something like this:
  def index
    render :action=>"#{locale}/index"
  end

Question 1 is, would that work?  I''m hacking on the code now so
I''m sure
I''ll find out in two minutes.

Question 2 is, assuming that this does work, what would be the best way
to chain in at a higher level so I didn''t have to do this for every
single method of every controller?  I''m reading the docs on
ActionController and ActionView but not seeing any obvious places.


Please note that I am already in the process of doing string
externalization into config/locales/fr.yml and so on.  I''m just
exploring this different strategy for situations where I''ve got
substantial blocks of content in the views that might be better served
with a clone of the entire page.
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