Translating plugins and engines

Hello,

I’ve been using several plugins and engines and almost all of them are
in
English, so, being Spanish my language, one of the first things I must
do is
translating them to Spanish.

I’ve been checking things like Globalize
(http://globalize-rails.org/wiki/),
Internationalization
(Peak Obsession) and
MultiLingualRails
(Peak Obsession), but I
haven’t
really tried any of those yet.

In cases like the User Engine or the Login Engine, for example, I
created
views folder in my app folder, and copied there only the views I wanted
to
translate. In cases like the Riki Engine this didn’t worked, so I had to
translate the views directly in the vendor/plugins/riki_engine
directories
(I suppose this would give problems if I wish to upgrade the code from
the
Riki repository, in the case of future releases).

In any case, I was wondering if any of you have faced this same
situation,
and what have you done? Is there something like a “best practice” for
this?
Would it be better to “globalize” the plugins and engines I download in
the
future, or just translate them directly in the code, as I did?

What are your thought about this?

Thanks,

Jesús Dugarte.-