# Whats the best approach for small dual language site?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-best-approach-for-small-dual-language-site/110918>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-best-approach-for-small-dual-language-site/110918 "2007-08-01T01:33:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![itchy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@itchy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/itchy)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-best-approach-for-small-dual-language-site/110918/1 "2007-08-01T01:33:22Z")

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Hello all,  
I’m doing a small website for holiday homes in Brazil. I would like to  
duplicate the site in Portuguese as well as English. At the moment on  
the admin side of things i have duplicate fields for all the text input,  
so title and title\_portuguese. I have my front controller which the  
public see currently all in English. How would you suggest i handle the  
Portuguese version of the site so that it is  
A: accessible to search engines.  
B: follows the DRY philosophy and is generally elegant.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

regards  
caspar

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**Author:** ![itchy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@itchy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/itchy)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-best-approach-for-small-dual-language-site/110918/2 "2007-08-01T05:16:17Z")

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Gettext is a great translation tool.