# Help Symfony(PHP) to RoR(Ruby)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-symfony-php-to-ror-ruby/75776>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 13, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-symfony-php-to-ror-ruby/75776 "2006-11-13T11:00:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Willem_H)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-symfony-php-to-ror-ruby/75776/1 "2006-11-13T11:00:26Z")

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Hello fellow Railers,

I am very new to Ruby and the Rails Framework, I would just like to  
inquire about multi language support in RoR, I have worked with  
Symfony (You know the other PHP framework) and it’s support for l18n  
is pretty good.

Is there multi language support in RoR?

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**Author:** ![Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Willem_H)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 11:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-symfony-php-to-ror-ruby/75776/2 "2006-11-13T11:18:27Z")

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This would be of help,  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Localization+Plugin](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Localization+Plugin)

Regards,  
Jatinder

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**Author:** ![Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Willem_H)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 11:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-symfony-php-to-ror-ruby/75776/3 "2006-11-13T11:32:29Z")

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Generally (with a few easy hacks to Ruby & the DB backend) Rails does  
input/output fine. String manipulations and regex operations can be  
broken though. Btw, symfony is a great intro to Rails: you’ll soon  
realize tho, that it’s MUCH easier and cleaner in the rails world.

Vish

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**Author:** ![Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Willem_H)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-symfony-php-to-ror-ruby/75776/4 "2006-11-13T12:34:37Z")

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Thanks Jatinder and Vishu, that helps alot.

Another question, if i have created a scaffold of a table called  
products. Now if i add a new column in mysql to the products table  
will RoR know of this change or will i have to do something similar as  
in Symfony where you have to rebuild the model?

On 11/13/06, Vishnu G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Localization+Plugin](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Localization+Plugin)
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> > > Hello fellow Railers,
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> >

–  
Willem H.  
OSS Developer  
Business Data Solutions  
Tel #: 021 422 09 51  
E-mail: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Willem_H)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-symfony-php-to-ror-ruby/75776/5 "2006-11-13T13:26:45Z")

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No, you have nothing to do

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**Author:** ![Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@Willem\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Willem_H)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-symfony-php-to-ror-ruby/75776/6 "2006-11-13T13:26:45Z")

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The model will know, no rebuilding needed and it will be reflected in  
the  
on-the-fly type scaffolding, but of course if you’ve generated ‘real’  
scaffolding “script/generate scaffold product” … you’ll need to adjust  
the  
code that’s been created there yourself. The exception being, that if  
you  
haven’t actually modified that code anyway, you could just regenerate it  
and  
it too would be updated.