i18n assets management / translation UI

Question

Hello everyone,

i'm building a multi-lingual webapp with i18n from the ground up, and while i myself can deal with an army of yml files, the languages i speak are ( very ) limited, and would eventually like to ask for outside help.

I'd like to know if anyone here is using a UI plugin/gem ( not unlike django-rosetta on django ) to deal with multiple translators, some of them unwilling or unable to mess with 100+ files in a repository, working on language data.

thanks &regards, Andras

( apologies if you bumped into this on rubyonrails-talk already )

Answer 1

We used the translate gem for one of our projects before and it worked nicely. It's not perfect as your YAML files are no longer in your SCM but it lets the client translate his own application. We only used one YAML file per language so I don't know if it scales to a few 100 files...

DHH created another one, tolk, but I didn't have a chance to look at it yet.

Both solutions are for Rails 2.x, haven't tried this in Rails 3 yet.

Answer 2

There is a rails3 branch of the tolk gem on github. You can install it by inserting the following line in your Gemfile

gem "tolk", :git => "http://github.com/dhh/tolk.git", :branch => "rails3"