Demo application for Rails internalization API

Simple & minimal Rails application to test the new Rails internationalization and localization API

It evolved from following excellent review from Trevor Turk, available at www.almosteffortless.com/2008/07/21/simple-localization-in-rails-22

Tries to set some reasonable pattern to load translation files and set locale either from request domain (.com, .de, etc) or request params.

*Includes translation file* for Czech language so you can easily roll your own Spanish, German, Polish, etc version just by duplicating the file, renaming it and changing the translation strings. After server restart you should see your language in language bar at the top of the page.

Requirements

You have to to run edge Rails for this app to work. Run this command in the app directory:

  rake rails:freeze:edge

About setting the locale from the request domain

Usually the most sane approach to setting locale/language version of the application is from the domain: application.com loads English, application.es Spanish. This works best for content heavy websites and search engines love it.

The ApplicationController#extract_locale_from_uri sets locale from the domain. To test this, you have to edit /etc/hosts by inserting lines like:

  127.0.0.1 application.com
  127.0.0.1 application.cz

Then just load your application as usual at application.cz:3000 or application.com:3000 and you should see the locale being switched

About Rails i18n

See www.rails-i18n.org and get in touch at groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n