Rails I18n From The Trenches

Rails i18nFrom the TrenchesClemens 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

i18n

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 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”)

Tools

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

Parsing dates/times isreally 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

Image credits

• http://www.sxc.hu/photo/708615

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferneyes/469259974/

• http://aceitapretzel.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/dexter-ap.jpg

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/2936384313/

• http://www.festivalcervantino.gob.mx/Ficesmas/prensa/galerias/oct/12/Hamletokok/images/061012_hamlet_20FGJ.jpg

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/srgblog/1408923862/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/purrr/126597849/