Rails I18n : Internationalization for Ruby on Rails

I18n

• I18n – Internationalization library for Ruby
• I18n on Gemcutter
• Mailinglist

R18n

• r18n – I18n solution for Ruby (not identical with the I18n gem) – (Andrey Sitnik)
• r18n-rails – wrapper for R18n Rails API and R18n core libraries (Andrey Sitnik)

GetText

• fast_gettext – super fast and efficient Ruby GetText reimplementation (Michael Grosser)
• gettext_i18n_rails – fast_gettext integration with Rails (Michael Grosser)
• gettext – Ruby-GetText-Package, Localization(L10n) library and tools (Masao Mutoh)
• gettext_rails – Ruby on Rails (>= 2.3) localization support with Ruby-GetText (Masao Mutoh)

Docs, Tutorials and Guides

• Rails Guide: Rails Internationalization (I18n) API
• Rdoc API docs
• The Ruby on Rails I18n core api Initial blog article (Sven Fuchs)
• Translations available in Rails (Iain Hecker)
• Railscast on Rails 2.2 I18n, great screencast by Ryan Bates

Howtos & Tips

• How to do Simple Localization in Rails 2.2 (Trevor Turk)
• Localizing Rails (with demo application) (Clemens Kofler)
• Rocking your application with Rails 2.2 i18n support (Diego Carrion)
• Translating ActiveRecord (Iain Hecker)
• Plugin in_place_edit agora com suporte a i18n (Diego Carrion, Portuguese)
• Formatando datas no Rails, agora com suporte a i18n (Diego Carrion, Portuguese)
• I18n on Rails => mudanças no helper date_select (Diego Carrion, Portuguese)
• Rocking mit i18n em Rails en 3 pasos (Diego Carrion, Portuguese)
• Catucando no i18n do rails (João Paulo Lins, Portuguese)
• Gibberish-style Syntax sugar (Pietro Ferrari)
• Model translations
• How to encode the current locale in the URL
• i18n url based breadcrumbs (Claudio Poli)

Other articles

• History and motivation of the Rails I18n project (Sven Fuchs)
• The Future of I18n in Ruby on Rails – talk at RailsConf Europe 2008 (Sven Fuchs)

Demos

• Demo application (Clemens Kofler)
• Clemens’ demo application, translated to Brazilian Portuguese (Fabio Akita)
• Clemens’ demo application, made fully i18n, includes English, Brazilian Portuguese (from Akita), Japanese and Czech. Support for other languages. (Simon Tokumine)
• Micro demo application, includes Czech translations (Karel Minarik)

Gems and Plugins

• Templates localization for Rails 2.2 (José Valim)
• Parse and use the HTTP Accept Language header (Iain Hecker)
• Rails helper: Translated labels in forms (Iain Hecker)
• localized_dates: Easy localization of dates and times (Clemens Kofler)
• Russian gem – includes custom backend with context/standalone month names support, lambda-defined pluralization rules, and a couple of Rails hacks as well as Russian-specific methods (Yaroslav Markin)
• simple_loc_compat – compatibility layer to SimpleLocalization (Yar)
• i18n_helper – available_locales and set_locale helper (Jaap van der Meer)
• Translate routes – translate URLs, includes url generation helpers (Raul Murciano)
• Routing filter – filter in/output of the routing system (Sven Fuchs)
• LocalizedCountrySelect – localized <select> menu with countries, storing country codes in the database (Karel Minarik)
• Rails i18n_helper – Makes the default Rails helpers i18n compatible (Iain Hecker)
• I18n generators – generates scaffold locale files for Rails, model and attribute names (Akira Matsuda)
• locales_switch – Provide a simple way to add locales switching in your application (Oleg Zhurbiy)
• activerecord_i18n_defaults – define translations for common attributes used in more that one model (Diego Carrion)
• Ruby-Locale – Autodetect client locale, l10n routes, action/fragment cache and view templates (Masao Mutoh)
• later_dude – Simple calendar helper with i18n support (Clemens Kofler)
• rails-i18n-translation-inheritance-helper – locale inheritance/fallback to more general locales for missing translations (Kip Cole)
• Translator – easy-to-use key conventions, catch missing keys in tests, simple locale fallbacks (Mike Champion)
• Store translations in YAML files (Iain Hecker) (deprecated)
• delocalize: Convert localized data (numbers, dates, times) into regular Ruby objects (Clemens Kofler)
• delocalize – Convert localized data (numbers, dates, times) into regular Ruby objects (Clemens Kofler)
• localized_scaffold scaffolding generator that produces localized views and controller flashes (Jan Ulbrich)
• click-to-globalize – inplace editing of translations (Luca Guidi)

Model translations & tools

• Globalize2 – the next incarnation of Globalize (Joshua Harvey)
• TranslatableColumns – have multiple languages of the same attribute in a model (Iain Hecker)
• localized_record – allows records to have localized attributes without any modifications to the database (Glenn Powell)
• model_translations – Minimal implementation of Globalize2 style model translations (Jan Andersson)
• globalize2_versioning – acts_as_versioned style versioning for Globalize2 (Joshua Harvey)
• i18n_multi_locales_validations – multi-locales attributes validations to validates attributes from Globalize2 translations models (Sébastien Grosjean)
• Globalize2 Demo App – demo application for Globalize2 (Sven Fuchs)
• migrate_from_globalize1 – migrate model translations from Globalize1 to Globalize2 (Tomasz Stachewicz)
• easy_globalize2_accessors – easily access (read and write) globalize2-translated fields (astropanic, Tomasz Stachewicz)
• globalize2-easy-translate – adds methods to easily access or set translated attributes to your model (bsamman)
• batch_translations – allow saving multiple Globalize2 translations in the same request (Jose Alvarez Rilla)

GetText related

• gettext_activerecord – ActiveRecord (>= 2.2) localization using Ruby-GetText (Masao Mutoh)
• Ruby-GetText-Package Howto (Masao Mutoh)
• Ruby-GetText for Ruby on Rails Docs (Masao Mutoh)
• Howto: Migrate rails-2.1.x (gettext-1.93.0) to rails-2.3.2 (gettext-2.0.0) (Masao Mutoh)
• gettext_test_log – logs translations during tests so that dynamic translations can be found through Gettext (Michael Grosser)
• gettext_i18n_rails_example – fast_gettext example application with gettext_i18n_rails and gettext_test_log (Michael Grosser)

I18n/L10n’ed libraries

• restful-authentication-i18n – i18n’ed version of restful authentication (Diego Carrion)

Code Snippets

• I18n.available_locales
• available_locales (Claudio Poli)

Tools

• translate – Rails plugin that provides a web interface for translating your application (Newsdesk)
• Rails I18n Textmate bundle – Textmate bundle that helps with extracting translations from your source (Sven Fuchs)
• Gettext to Rails I18n api converter – helps converting an existing application from Gettext to I18n (Jaap van der Meer)

Translations

• Rails locale data – repository for collecting locale data for Rails (Sven Fuchs)

Services

• 99translations – hosted webservice for sharing and maintaining translations

Other resources

• Globalize 2: Interview with Joshua Harvey (Joshua Harvey), used in “The Future of I18n in Rails” at RailsConf Eu 2008
• “Official” Rails I18n Project Hymn – Painkiller (Judas Priest)