I feel like I'm missing something really simple and I keep spinning my wheels on this problem.

I currently have internationalization working throughout my app. The translations work and the routes work perfectly. At least, most of the site works with the exception of the routes to my two static pages, my "About" and "FAQ" pages.

Every other link throughout the app points to the proper localized route. For example if I select "french" as my language, links point to the appropriate "(/:locale)/controller(.:format)." However, despite the changes I make throughout the app my links for the "About" and "FAQ" refuse to point to "../fr/static/about" and always point to "/static/about."

To make matters stranger, when I run rake routes I see: "GET (/:locale)/static/:permalink(.:format) pages#show {:locale=>/en|fr/}"

and when I manually type in "../fr/static/about" the page translates perfectly.

My Routes file:

 devise_for :users

 scope "(:locale)", :locale => /en|fr/ do
  get 'static/:permalink', :controller => 'pages', :action => 'show'  

  resources :places, only: [:index, :show, :destroy]
  resources :homes, only: [:index, :show]

  match '/:locale' => 'places#index'
  get '/'=>'places#index',:as=>"root"
 end

My ApplicationController:

before_filter :set_locale

def set_locale
  I18n.locale=params[:locale]||I18n.default_locale
end
def default_url_options(options={})
  logger.debug "default_url_options is passed options: #{options.inspect}\n"
  { :locale => I18n.locale }
end

and My Pages Controller:

class PagesController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :validate_page
  PAGES = ['about_us', 'faq']

  def show    
   render params[:permalink]
  end

 def validate_page
  redirect_to :status => 404 unless PAGES.include?(params[:permalink])
 end
end

I'd be very grateful for any help ... it's just been one of those days.

Edit: Thanks to Terry for jogging me to include views.

<div class="container-fluid nav-collapse">
    <ul class="nav">
      <li class="dropdown">
        <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown"><%= t(:'navbar.about')   %><b class="caret"></b></a>
          <ul class="dropdown-menu">  
            <li><%=link_to t(:'navbar.about_us'),  "/static/about_us"%></li>
            <li><%=link_to t(:'navbar.faq'),       "/static/faq"%></li>
            <li><%=link_to t(:'navbar.blog'),      '#' %></li> 
          </ul>  
      </li>