LocalizationSimplified April 26, 2007

Posted by Slobodan Kovacevic in : Ruby & Rails , 4 comments

Rails is excellent in handling almost everything if you are building a site in English. Unfortunately, when it comes to localization (sites in other languages, UTF-8 support, etc.) Rails is not very well equipped to handle it.

There are localization plugins that make life easier, but most of them are rather complex, hard to use and have significant overhead (i.e. takes time to setup, learn, etc.). Fortunately, plugin called Localization Simplified aims to simplify localization as much as possible:

Fast and easy localization of one-language applications. Adds UTF-8 support for Ruby + database. Modifies ActiveRecord errors + html error helpers, Date/Time helpers, locale time formats, to_currency, to_sentence

It’s easy to use mainly because it only overrides existing Rails methods, so you don’t have to do anything special to use it.

Localization Simplified is a great plugin which you can download from Ruby Forge.