Announcement: Really simple localization plugin

Rails Rails I18n
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I needed something simpler than Globalize and GLoc to localize my Rails
application into Danish. I packed it into this plugin. Feel free to use
it.
Languages available: Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, and (“Swedish
Chef”
for the fun of it)

Plugin available at http://visitjesper.homeip.net/plugins/
IMPORTANT: Plugin directory likely to move to more appropriate location
anytime

The goal is to have a dead simple plugin for one-language (non-english)
Rails applications.
Many of the existing localization/internationalization plugins are too
big
for this and hard to get started with.
Just dump this plugin in /vendor/plugins/, set your language and off you
go.

Unlike the more advanced plugins, you don’t have to translate anything
in
your view files. Just use the standard Rails commands you’re used to.
The simple approach also makes limits. Make sure you understand them to
decide if this plugin is right for you.

===What it does
This plugin modifies the following most used helpers for Rails

  • Sets UTF-8 content-type HTTP header
  • Sets UTF-8 connection to database
  • Localized monthnames on date_select etc. (but not changing the order
    of
    Y-M-D)
  • Localized ActiveRecord errors (and error headings)
  • Localized distance_of_time_in_words
  • Localized to_currency (but not changing the order of unit/currency)
  • Simple pluralization also available in the lang-file (but currently
    only
    used for pluralizing “error”=>“errors” in local language)
  • Changes standard Rails methods. In this way, there’s no tedious
    rewrite of
    localization functions in your view files
  • Languages available: Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, and (“Swedish
    Chef”
    for the fun of it)

Read more in the README file of the project.

If you want to help out, I’d really like you to translate into more
languages. See more under TODO in the README file.
Also, since this is my first plulgin, any feedback is welcome. There is
probably something I can do smarter…

As a side note: Is there somebody here who want’s to translate it into
“Pirate speak” (world Talk like a pirate day is coming soon…)

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Hi Jesper,

I’ve been doing something similar myself and also ran into this problem:

Modification of ruby constants

class Date #:nodoc:
#FIXME as these are defined as Ruby constants, they can’t be
overwritten
MONTHNAMES =LocalizationSimplified::DateHelper::Monthnames
ABBR_MONTHNAMES =LocalizationSimplified::DateHelper::AbbrMonthnames
DAYNAMES =LocalizationSimplified::DateHelper::Daynames
ABBR_DAYNAMES =LocalizationSimplified::DateHelper::AbbrDaynames
end

I don’t know if it’s really a problem though, it runs fine on my dev
server, but you get the ugly warnings though…

I’d also be interested in translating this into Dutch.

Cheers,

Jeroen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen wrote:

I needed something simpler than Globalize and GLoc to localize my Rails
application into Danish. I packed it into this plugin. Feel free to use
it.
Languages available: Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, and (“Swedish
Chef”
for the fun of it)

Plugin available at http://visitjesper.homeip.net/plugins/
IMPORTANT: Plugin directory likely to move to more appropriate location
anytime

The goal is to have a dead simple plugin for one-language (non-english)
Rails applications.
Many of the existing localization/internationalization plugins are too
big
for this and hard to get started with.
Just dump this plugin in /vendor/plugins/, set your language and off you
go.

Unlike the more advanced plugins, you don’t have to translate anything
in
your view files. Just use the standard Rails commands you’re used to.
The simple approach also makes limits. Make sure you understand them to
decide if this plugin is right for you.

===What it does
This plugin modifies the following most used helpers for Rails

  • Sets UTF-8 content-type HTTP header
  • Sets UTF-8 connection to database
  • Localized monthnames on date_select etc. (but not changing the order
    of
    Y-M-D)
  • Localized ActiveRecord errors (and error headings)
  • Localized distance_of_time_in_words
  • Localized to_currency (but not changing the order of unit/currency)
  • Simple pluralization also available in the lang-file (but currently
    only
    used for pluralizing “error”=>“errors” in local language)
  • Changes standard Rails methods. In this way, there’s no tedious
    rewrite of
    localization functions in your view files
  • Languages available: Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, and (“Swedish
    Chef”
    for the fun of it)

Read more in the README file of the project.

If you want to help out, I’d really like you to translate into more
languages. See more under TODO in the README file.
Also, since this is my first plulgin, any feedback is welcome. There is
probably something I can do smarter…

As a side note: Is there somebody here who want’s to translate it into
“Pirate speak” (world Talk like a pirate day is coming soon…)

3

Great Jeroen.
Please send me your translated lang-file and I’ll include it in the next
release.
Oh i found a bug and updated the released files yesterday after our
Copenhagen Rails Meetup. I also added an extra placeholder for day of
week
on time conversions (of activesupport).
Please use the updated lang_en.rb file found at
http://visitjesper.homeip.net/plugins/localization_simplified/lib/lang_de.rb

as a template.

Thanks!
/Jesper

On 8/15/06, Jeroen H. [email protected] wrote:

ABBR_MONTHNAMES =LocalizationSimplified::DateHelper::AbbrMonthnames

Plugin available at http://visitjesper.homeip.net/plugins/

  • Sets UTF-8 connection to database
    rewrite of
    Also, since this is my first plulgin, any feedback is welcome. There is

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Embarrassing: The link should have been to the English file and not the
German file
Here’s the correct link:
http://visitjesper.homeip.net/plugins/localization_simplified/lib/lang_en.rb