Internationalizing Your Rails Application in 34 Languages eBook

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Ashiq Alibhai

We’re very pleased to announce our very on Ruby on Rails eBook: Internationalizing Your Rails Application in 34 Languages! The goal of this eBook is to help you get your Ruby on Rails application internationalized–and to kick it off with not one or two, but 34 different languages–all without the expense of hiring a translator!

This eBook covers:

  • Why bother internationalizing in the first place?
  • The Rails 2.2 API for internationalization
  • How to internationalize your Rails application
  • How to get your application translated with minimal pain
  • Using Google Translate to get quick, cheap translations of your Ruby on Rails application (and why this is important, even with a mediocre-quality translation).
  • And more!

So don’t wait–download it now and get your Ruby on Rails application internationalized today! (Really, it takes less than an hour for the entire process.)

About Ashiq Alibhai

Ashiq Alibhai, PMP, has been a Rails aficionado since 2007, and developed web applications since early 2003, where he learned PHP in one summer. As the driving-force behind RailsRocket and the Launchpad project, he seeks to share the ease of development with Rails far and wide.
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8 Responses to Internationalizing Your Rails Application in 34 Languages eBook

  1. Patrick Hall says:
    January 27, 2009 at 11:27 am

    “Paste the contents of your en.yml file into the text-field” on Google Translate?

    And publish the results? This is a joke, right?

  2. ashes999 says:
    January 27, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    If it is … I’m not laughing! Google Translate has one of the best machine translations available. Certainly, it’s not as fluent as human translations.

    As I mentioned later on, you should stick to languages you yourself speak, and use Google Translate as a “crutch” to expedite the translation process. I wouldn’t risk my projects, especially if I had a lot of customers, on just Google Translate. It’s a good tool, but it’s not perfect.

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  4. Andrei Erdoss says:
    February 6, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Thanks, man for the ebook! It is a great starting guide.

  5. Julian says:
    July 8, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Thanks — it’s great to see some examples. It’s also a shame as it does look like I18n is a lot more work. And YML — yeeks. Are there alternatives?

    Perhaps you could call your book the ‘STRING internationalization’ guide? As you don’t cover other important aspects of internationalisation such as dates, currencies, Right to Left, UTF8 issues, internationalisation of images (where logos etc have local versions), etc. Perhaps you could include pointers to those?

    If you have any thoughts on that lot in Rails that’d be super awesome!

  6. ashes999 says:
    July 8, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    @Julian, you’re right; it is more about strings. I haven’t looked beyond what I’ve documented in my book–like dates, currencies, etc. You can try google-searching, or try the resources section of the book, I remember reading about these things and thinking “whoa,” since I didn’t even have the basics of I18n down yet.

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