R18n

R18n is a i18n tool to translate your Ruby application to several languages. It contain core gem and out-of-box wrapper plugins for frameworks or environments (Rails, Sinatra, Merb, desktop).

For more features description and tutorial see r18n-core dir. For special How To see plugins dirs for your environment.

Merb R18n plugin is maintained by teamon: github.com/teamon/merb-i18n.

R18n Features

• Nice Ruby-style syntax.
• Filters.
• Flexible locales.
• Custom translations loaders.
• Translation support for any classes.
• Time and number localization.
• Several user language support.

Small Example

i18n/en.yml:

  user:
    edit: Edit user
    name: User name is %1
    count: !!pl
      1: There is 1 user
      n: There are %1 users

example.rb:

  t.user.edit         #=> "Edit user"
  t.user.name('John') #=> "User name is John"
  t.user.count(5)     #=> "There are 5 users"

  t.not.exists | 'default' #=> "default"
  t.not.exists.translated? #=> false

  l Time.now         #=> "03/01/2010 18:54"
  l Time.now, :human #=> "now"
  l Time.now, :full  #=> "3rd of January, 2010 18:54"