Tag Archives: i18n

A workflow for translations

As Mynewsdesk is moving into new markets, our internationalization (i18n) efforts have been stepped up a notch. Rails has pretty good i18n support, but maintenance becomes painful when projects scale up [insert "rails can't scale" joke]. A better translation process … Continue reading

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New rake task for the Tranlsate plugin: Google Translate

We just pushed the latest addition to the Translate plugin which adds a new rake task: “rake translate:google FROM=sv TO=en”. This will translate all keys in sv.yaml using Google Translate into english and store them in en.yaml. This is a … Continue reading

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Rake Tasks for the Translate Plugin

We’ve added two Rake tasks to the Translate plugin. The lost_in_translation rake task helps find I18n keys in lookups in your code that are missing from your default locale YAML file (i.e. config/locales/sv.yml in our case). The merge_keys Rake task … Continue reading

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Translate: New Rails I18n Plugin with a Nice Web UI

Here at Mynewsdesk we are in the midst of internationalizing a fairly big Ruby on Rails application. Sven Fuchs’s I18n Textmate bundle has been a great help in extracting thousands of texts away from our source code and into YAML … Continue reading

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