Rails I18n From The Trenches

Rails i18n From the Trenches Clemens Koﬂer

Hi, I’m Clemens! (Clemens Koﬂer, clemensk)

Today, I’m going to talk about ... • The latest developments in Ruby/Rails i18n • Current problems (in Rails) and potential future changes

http://guides.rails.info/i18n.html

i18n basics in 2 minutes

Do you like Gettext? (of course it’s fake)

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i18n news

Additions in i18n 0.2.0 • translation procs • custom namespace separators • Ruby 1.9-style string interpolation • (symlinked translations)

+ a bunch of neat plugins (list at the end)

Additions in i18n 0.2.0 • translation procs • custom namespace separators • Ruby 1.9-style string interpolation • (symlinked translations)

bleeding edge

Current edge • Base backend + module includes • Pluralization module • Cache module • Locale fallbacks module from Globalize 2 • Chain backend from Globalize 2 • Gettext support (experimental)

Current problems • Tools • Data input • CLDR compliance • Some unﬁnished integration (Date/Time#to_s, labels) • Bad Rails implementations (AR Errors) • (Clean) routing i18n nearly impossible • (Gettext support / “enterprise-readiness”)

http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n-tools

Parsing dates/times is really hard (you can try out my experimental delocalize plugin)

You can do something like this with translate_routes but it’s basically a really scary hack.

i18n vs. Gettext?

War? Not really.

We are not Gettext (and we don’t want to be) ((ever))

Recommendations

The Setup • i18n edge • Translations from GitHub • (Globalize 2 for model translations) • (localized_dates for transparent date handling) • (delocalize for parsing localized input) • (translate_routes for i18n routing)

Questions?

Some resources • http://rails-i18n.org • http://guides.rails.info/i18n.html • http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n • http://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n • http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n-tools • http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n • Pluralization rules: http://gist.github.com/106372

clemens@railway.at http://www.railway.at http://github.com/clemens

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Rails I18n From The Trenches

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