# How database driven content localization is done?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-database-driven-content-localization-is-done/185012>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 11, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-database-driven-content-localization-is-done/185012 "2010-03-11T20:27:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![karikrishni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@karikrishni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karikrishni)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-database-driven-content-localization-is-done/185012/1 "2010-03-11T20:27:58Z")

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Hi,

We are developing a site which needs to be localized, But we store the  
content into the database records. Anyone has ideas about how to  
localize a database based application?

It should not use the google translate. Instead the content author  
shall provide multiple language content.

Any example CMS which is using localized language options?

Regards,

Krish

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**Author:** ![karikrishni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@karikrishni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karikrishni)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-database-driven-content-localization-is-done/185012/2 "2010-03-11T20:30:54Z")

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show source of I18n , and use placeholders.  
No problem  
\_\_  
Best Regards, Dieinzige

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**Author:** ![karikrishni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@karikrishni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karikrishni)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-database-driven-content-localization-is-done/185012/3 "2010-03-11T20:35:35Z")

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I am sorry, I am very new to rails.

Let say I have blog post model with the following properties

1. Title
2. Description
3. created\_at
4. updated\_at
5. slug

In the above model, I need to localize title and description. If that  
is the case, how it would be done?

We have english, south indian and hindi language choices. Atleast 6  
languages.

Regards,

Krish

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**Author:** ![karikrishni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@karikrishni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karikrishni)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-database-driven-content-localization-is-done/185012/4 "2010-03-11T20:41:26Z")

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On 11 March 2010 19:21, karikrishni [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> In the above model, I need to localize title and description. If that  
> is the case, how it would be done?

Have a look at the rails guides at [http://guides.rubyonrails.org/](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/).  
There is one on internationalisation. However if you are new to Rails  
I would start with Getting Started and work through the rest. Going  
straight to I18N without a reasonable knowledge of ruby and rails  
might cause brain overload.

Colin