# Localisation - Looking for a straight-forward solution **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails I18n\ **Created:** [January 8, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367 "2007-01-08T15:13:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/1 "2007-01-08T15:13:40Z")
Hello there. I’m looking for a localisation plugin that is: - easy to use (like java’s ressource bundle for instance) - flexible enough\* - fast - well documented \*My requirements in detail: - I want to take care of my database schema on my own (don’t want a autom. handling like globalize) - It should not torture my database; a file-based solution (with caching in memory) would be appreciated - Multiple languages per site required - but not necessarily per page - nice to have: The choise of the active language for a request should be up to me; not handled automatically - Unicode should be possible - Rails 1.16, 1.2 compatible - should work with fragment/action/page caching - would like to have a routing like: [site.com/:lang/:controller/:action](http://site.com/:lang/:controller/:action) - translation of rails error messages and stuff - translation of model and attribute names (in error messages) would be appreciated However I’m still not sure if it’s preferable to have multiple rhtmls per language or to have just one with multiple calls to something like “getText(XXXX)”. I could image that the multiple rhtml-solution is more flexible and possibly faster. What do you think or what are you experiences? Thanks… David ---
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/2 "2007-02-11T11:40:15Z")
I’m using this, works. [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Localization+Plugin](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Localization+Plugin) ---
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/3 "2007-02-11T14:49:17Z")
Hi. Sounds like GLoc would be a good fit for those requirements. However regarding the points: - translation of rails error messages and stuff - translation of model and attribute names (in error messages) would be appreciated you would have to do that yourself. Golly ---
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/4 "2007-02-13T11:44:14Z")
Thanks god Gloc 1.2 is out:-) It’s my last hope. Thanks… David ---
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/5 "2007-02-13T13:07:49Z")
Great to hear. Hope it’s what you’re looking for. 🙂 Golly ---
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/6 "2007-02-26T15:46:54Z")
Yes, indeed. k Thnx!! However I have one thing that is in conflict with my requirements: As I can see it does not work with caching very well. Do you use caching in your web-apps? Regards //David ---
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/7 "2007-02-28T12:42:13Z")
I have no idea. Actually I’m using the RESTful versions. Therefore the cache is organised like /tmp//:resource/:id/:sub\_resource/:id.cache How can the url\_for modify the cache-filename? THX David ---
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/8 "2007-02-27T23:30:47Z")
Hi. Yes, I’ve used it with caching without any problems. You know how you use a url\_for style hash to identify the cached filename, just add :lang =\> current\_language to it. Golly ---
**Author:** ![davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@davidstokar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidstokar)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/localisation-looking-for-a-straight-forward-solution/81367/9 "2007-03-02T00:50:09Z")
You’ll have to look up the rails api or google it but i remember that methods like cache(), expire\_fragment(), cache\_page() accept url\_for params. I’d give u more help but I’ve been programming in Java for the last month or two so it feels like a while since I touched ruby on rails. Golly