# About mulitple selectable languages

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-mulitple-selectable-languages/108513>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 4, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-mulitple-selectable-languages/108513 "2007-07-04T10:00:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![emuen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@emuen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/emuen)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-mulitple-selectable-languages/108513/1 "2007-07-04T10:00:14Z")

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Hi guys.

I failed to find my desired information on google, so im writing you in  
hopes, that on or more of you know how to implement multiple languages  
in a smart and easy way. Lets say, that the user i spanish, and he wants  
to change his language. He can then select languages from a dropdown,  
and all the txet on the page, is then changes to spanish.  
It goes without saying, that the text on the page must be from a  
database, otherwise it wouldnt be able to change. So is there a good way  
to do this?

- Emil

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**Author:** ![emuen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@emuen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/emuen)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 11:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-mulitple-selectable-languages/108513/2 "2007-07-04T11:27:10Z")

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Emil K. wrote:

> Hi guys.
> 
> I failed to find my desired information on google, so im writing you in  
> hopes, that on or more of you know how to implement multiple languages  
> in a smart and easy way. Lets say, that the user i spanish, and he wants  
> to change his language. He can then select languages from a dropdown,  
> and all the txet on the page, is then changes to spanish.  
> It goes without saying, that the text on the page must be from a  
> database, otherwise it wouldnt be able to change. So is there a good way  
> to do this?
> 
> - Emil