Multilingual web application

Rails
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Hi list,

I have a more conceptual question. I want to create a multilingual web
application. I have the models “product” and “product_name”. Each
“product_name” contains a product_id, a language_id and a string value
for name.

First question: Is this the usual way for crating a multilingual
application?
Second question: Should I save the user preferred language (the user
is anonymous) in the cookies? If yes how should I define ‘name’ in my
active record Product?
Say, I want to write following.

p = Product.find(123)
puts p.name # the name for the preferred language

How should I define ‘name’ in app/model/product.rb ?

Thanks,
peotry

2

Hi list,

I found the answer.

http://www.globalize-rails.org

3

On 8/9/07, poetry [email protected] wrote:

Hi list,

I found the answer.

http://www.globalize-rails.org

Its not the only answer. There must be at least 7 different ways of
internationalising
your web app in Rails/Ruby now. Globalise is a strong contender, but
there are
strengths to the others depending on your needs.

There is no straight answer to what you should be doing. But most
sites on the internet
would use a combination of default==HTTP header locale, and user
selectable options
in their profile.