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Internationalization (I18n) API in Ruby on Rails 3 (Part III)

January 29, 2011 2 comments

In Internationalization (I18n) API in Ruby on Rails 3 (Part I) and Internationalization (I18n) API in Ruby on Rails 3 (Part II) we already covered a lot of the Rails I18n functionality. In part III, we will now a look at some more advanced features of I18n. Using Different backend with I18n The I18n ruby gem [...]

Internationalization (I18n) API in Ruby on Rails 3 (Part II)

January 20, 2011 No comments yet

In the Internationalization (I18n) API in Rails 3 (Part I) you read about Definition of Internationalization & Localization How i18n mechanism works in Rails Setup/Configuration about the i18n mechanism Using the I18n with interpolation Using the I18n with pluralization You can read the full article on Internationalization (I18n) API in Rails 3 (Part I), if [...]

Internationalization (I18n) API in Ruby on Rails 3 (Part I)

January 13, 2011 2 comments

Whenever we hear about Internationalization of web application, the first word that comes to our mind is “Translation“. There are three ways to translate software: Do it Yourself Pay Someone for doing Translation Ask your Users No matter what, making the software ‘Internationalization ready’ is the developer’s job. No static strings, dates in the code [...]

Full text search with Sunspot in Rails

January 4, 2011 5 comments

Have you ever been came across a situation, when you have to examine all of the words in every stored document in Rails? Wait! here comes the solution and, that is, none other than Sunspot. Sunspot is basically a Ruby Library that is built on top of the RSolr library – A simple, extensible Ruby [...]

Quicktip: Generating Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Ruby on Rails

October 6, 2010 No comments yet

I am not a big fan of documentation. In my experience most documentation just exists for its own sake and normally nobody cares about it. In my mind, the code itself should be so expressive that nearly no documentation is needed (libraries and frameworks are the exception to this rule). Luckily, Ruby allows the most [...]