# Globalize list: Sketch of new globalize tutorial by szymek **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails I18n\ **Created:** [June 16, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/globalize-list-sketch-of-new-globalize-tutorial-by-szymek/63596 "2006-06-16T15:12:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/globalize-list-sketch-of-new-globalize-tutorial-by-szymek/63596/1 "2006-06-16T15:12:54Z")
Again a pbly. interesting post by “szymek” to the globalize list (which still has no archive as far as I know): – begin – Hi! I’ve created a sketch of a tutorial about how to use globalize to translate an existing rails app. You can find it here: [http://www.globalize-rails.org/wiki/pages/Examplary+application](http://www.globalize-rails.org/wiki/pages/Examplary+application). I couldn’t find complete globalize tutorial anywhere, so i decided to create one and hope that you will help 🙂 As English is not my native language (i’m Polish), i made lots of mistakes there and i _strongly_ encourage everyone to correct them. I’m not sure if even the title of the page is correct 🙂 I’m also not really sure if i should write “Now we have to create…” or “Now you have to create…” or just “Create…” so unfortunately you can find mix of all these forms. I’m Ruby/Rails newbie, so the technical part can also have lots of mistakes. Feel free to correct/add/remove/improve anything you think will make this tutorial better. I have few questions and propositions for the tutorial: 1. How to put url in 2. Could you guys take a look at the built\_in column problem? I could remove then the whole _WARNING_ part. I’m not sure if only i have this problem. 3. There’s a problem with routes in the tutorial. If i go to “localhost:3000/admin/” i get “localhost:3000/en/admin/admin/products”. If i specify locale in the route for ‘admin’ it works correctly so i assume there’s something wrong in my :set\_locale method in application\_controller.rb. 4. How to display a single object in 2 languages on a single page? Do i need to get both versions from the database? Currently i’m using @instance\_variable.switch\_language method provided by globalize\_extension plugin, which was posted by Olivier Amblet on this mailing list. The plugin is great, but i’m not sure if there shouldn’t be globalize only solution in the tutorial. Maybe this plugin could be integrated with globalize? Also i’m not sure if Olivier Amblet is the only author of this plugin. Olivier, if you want feel free to change it. 5. Is it possible to upload files (globalize\_extension plugin) and pictures to the globalize wiki server? 6. It would be nice to say something about adding/using pluralizations, and localization of dates/currency (that’s why i’ve added created/updated\_on and price fields to product model). 7. Add a chapter about translating error messages (maybe they could be built-in like dates?) 8. Add short introduction. 9. Upload non-globalize and globalized versions of the app? It could be helpful as the reference and probably could clear up many inaccuracies. 10. Correct the styling (i.e. add different background color for notes, change font, maybe move it to the right?) – end – ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/globalize-list-sketch-of-new-globalize-tutorial-by-szymek/63596/2 "2006-07-04T16:47:00Z")
If you are interested in evaluating Globalize try [http://wiki.globalize-rails.org/wiki/pages/Examplary+application](http://wiki.globalize-rails.org/wiki/pages/Examplary+application) This is an excellent writing that helps you through all the hassles you might have with setting up Globalize. And you might learn about a couple of other fine rails things. I’m currently trying this with Oracle, more about this in a followup posting. A big thanks to szymek! - Bernd ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/globalize-list-sketch-of-new-globalize-tutorial-by-szymek/63596/3 "2006-08-07T19:29:51Z")
Your article was by far the most useful when trying to figure out how to ‘globalize’ my site. Many thanks. If you could add a way to somehow automatically ‘grab’ text from babbelfish or google translate - it would be a real bonus.