Ruby-Locale for Ruby on Rails

This library provides some Rails localized functions.

This is useful with Rails i18n backends which doesn’t have auto-detection and some other features includes this library.

Features for Ruby on Rails

• Auto-Detect the locales from the WWW browser

• Action/Fragment caching

• Separated Localized View template file

• Localized Routes

• I18n.t fallback to localized message candidates.

Website

• www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-locale-rails.html

• locale.rubyforge.org/

Requirements

• Ruby-1.8.7 or later <www.ruby-lang.org/ja/>

• JRuby-1.1.4 or later <jruby.codehaus.org/>

• Ruby-Locale-0.9.0 or later <locale.rubyforge.org/>

Install

• gem: ($ su)

  # gem install locale_rails
  

Usage

config/environment.rb

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  :
  :
  config.gem 'locale'
  config.gem 'locale_rails'
end

config/initializer/locale.rb

# Tell the I18n library where to find your translations
I18n.supported_locales = ["ja", "en"]
I18n.default_locale = "ja"

Support matrix

• locale_rails-2.0.6 - rails-2.3.2,2.3.3,2.3.4,2.3.5

• locale_rails-2.0.5 - rails-2.3.2,2.3.3,2.3.4

• locale_rails-2.0.4 - rails-2.3.2

• locale_rails-2.0.3 - rails-2.3.2

• locale_rails-2.0.2 - rails-2.3.2

• locale_rails-2.0.1 - rails-2.3.2

• locale_rails-2.0.0 - rails-2.3.2

• locale_rails-0.1.0 - rails-2.1.x

Tested Ruby version:

• locale_rails-2.0.6 - 1.8.7-p249, 1.9.1-p378

License

This program is licenced under the same licence as Ruby(See COPYING) or LGPL(Lesser General Public License: www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt).

Maintainer

Masao Mutoh <mutomasa at gmail.com>