# Online translation services, to ease the pain **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails I18n\ **Created:** [March 2, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957 "2011-03-02T13:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/1 "2011-03-02T13:37:59Z")
Hello, New member. I work at Mynewsdesk, a Swedish company with a Rails web-app translated into 5 languages. We’re feeling the pain of editing huge YAML-files (~4000 lines each in config/locales/\*yml), so I decided I’d spend some of my lab day today exploring better translation tools. I thought this group might have some input. I’m primarily looking at online translation services, like [https://webtranslateit.com](https://webtranslateit.com), [http://www.smartling.com](http://www.smartling.com), [http://99translations.com](http://99translations.com) etc. Any recommendations? How do they integrate in a rails project? We’d especially like to see a well maintained, active project or a for-pay service providing a great UI. I dug around a bit in the archive, but I couldn’t find discussion on this. - Martin ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/2 "2011-03-03T05:59:40Z")
Hello Martin, On 2011/03/02 18:13, Martin S. wrote: > I’m primarily looking at online translation services, like > [https://webtranslateit.com](https://webtranslateit.com), [http://www.smartling.com](http://www.smartling.com), > [http://99translations.com](http://99translations.com) etc. Any recommendations? How do they integrate in > a rails project? > We’d especially like to see a well maintained, active project or a for-pay > service providing a great UI. > > I dug around a bit in the archive, but I couldn’t find discussion on this. The localization industry has quite a few standards. See [http://www.lisa.org/OSCAR-LISA-s-Standa.79.0.html](http://www.lisa.org/OSCAR-LISA-s-Standa.79.0.html) for an overview. In particular TMX should be of interest. They won’t give you an online translation service directly, but they may be able to help you to just plug into some. These standards use XML, which you want to even less edit by hand, but if you’d write a YAML\<-\>TMX converter, I’m rather sure that would help others on this list, too. Regards, Martin. – #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-# [http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp](http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp)[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/3 "2011-09-13T13:25:42Z")
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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/4 "2011-11-28T10:51:52Z")
Localisation in Rails normally involves a lot of hand-editing YAML translation files - which can be a pain if there are either a lot of strings or many languages. Locale solves many of the problems associated with localising Ruby on Rails apps. It helps Rails developers by providing a GUI to YAML translation files, and a Ruby gem to automatically upload and download strings for translation. > **[Effective App Localization and Translation - LocaleApp](https://www.localeapp.com/)** > > Locale offers a straight-forward, accessible and efficient way to localize your app making, i18n, localization and translation services simple. ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/5 "2011-12-07T02:04:07Z")
On Mar 2, Martin S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > New member. I work at Mynewsdesk, a Swedish company with a Rails web-app > translated into 5 languages. > > We’re feeling the pain of editing huge YAML-files (~4000 lines each in > config/locales/\*yml), so I decided I’d spend some of my lab day today > exploring better translation tools. I thought this group might have some > input. Have you taken a look at Transifex? [http://www.transifex.net/](http://www.transifex.net/) It’s being used by 2.000 open-source projects, including Django, Joomla, Fedora, and Firefox. It natively supports YAML, allows crowdsourcing of translations, and there’s a handy command-line client to easily manage any number of files. I’m one of the maintainers of the service, so feel free to fire away any questions my way. -d ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/6 "2013-12-05T12:56:45Z")
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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/7 "2012-03-13T12:21:01Z")
Hi Martin, Localization in Rails usually involve a lot of hand-editing YAML Translation records - which can be an ache if there, are also a lot of Strings or lots of language. Milieu solves numerous of the problems related with localizing Ruby on Rails apps. A Ruby gem to automatically upload and download strings for Translation. > **[Launching the Human Translations API - Quick, Easy and Reliable!](https://translatebyhumans.com/blog/human-translation-api/)** > > The Human Translations API aims to provide a solution to our users with bulk translation needs. Clients can easily place an order from their system directly into ours. ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/8 "2014-02-28T07:57:27Z")
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**Author:** ![koolfacer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a88e57/32.png) [@koolfacer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/koolfacer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/online-translation-services-to-ease-the-pain/203957/9 "2024-01-22T18:59:57Z")
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