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**Category:** Rails I18n\
**Created:** [April 6, 2007, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/language-version-of-rhtml-templates/91292 "2007-04-06T10:57:46Z")\
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**Author:**  [@braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/braver)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/language-version-of-rhtml-templates/91292/1 "2007-04-06T10:57:46Z")
I have a rails app, the lovely opinion forum, I’d like to globalize –
it uses a bunch of rhtml templates with hard-coded English text.
Should I change all the embedded text into the ugly \<%= ‘Msg’.t %\>
references with globalize, or rather can I gave language-specific rhtml
files? I realize it may be more work and fuzz to keep them in sync
though…
Now I was just looking at options and GNU suggests gettext – is
globalize using gettext or is it an alternative?
Cheers,
Alexy
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**Author:**  [@braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/braver)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/language-version-of-rhtml-templates/91292/2 "2007-04-13T13:33:58Z")
Hey…
> Should I change all the embedded text into the ugly \<%= ‘Msg’.t %\>
> references with globalize, or rather can I gave language-specific rhtml
> files? I realize it may be more work and fuzz to keep them in sync
> though…
Use separate templates, it’s easier …
> Now I was just looking at options and GNU suggests gettext – is
> globalize using gettext or is it an alternative?
there is a separate gettext rails localisation plugin, globlize works a
little different but has more features like model translation… we use
globalize.
Cheers,
Ben
[omdb.org](http://omdb.org)