G11n is Globalization

Globalization (g11n) is a Ruby Gem for easy language file handling aimed at internationalized projects.

The developers of g11n are well aware of the existence of both i18n and r18n Ruby Gems, but wanted a new approach (specially in terms of simplicity) and this is the answer.

Usage

G11n assumes you will have a series of language files written in YAML in an accessible folder to your project, named after each language's locale and followed by the YAML extension. Both .yaml and .yml extensions are recognized.

The default path for that folder is translations/. So, for example, if you have a file named translations/it.yaml that reads as...

# ./translations/it.yaml
home:
  title: La pasta della nonna
  menu:
    preparation: Comme farla
    eating: Comme si mangia
    wine: Con che si accompagna

... you can, in your project, insert the following code and get the internationalized strings:

# .script.rb
require "g11n"

G11n.locale :it                             # Configures G11n to use italian. Default is "en"
G11n.locale                                 # => :it

G11n.t.home.title                           # => "La pasta della nonna"
G11n.t.home.menu.wine                       # => "Con che si accompagna"

Installation

gem install g11n

Or when using Bundler

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'g11n'

And then execute:

bundle install

Configuring

Configuration is straight forward. You are using another directory for your language files? Just G11n.path "your/path". You want to change the locale? G11n.locale :yours.

For example, a translations file in a non-standard folder:

# ./i18ns/ru.yml
home:
  land: Российская Федерация

And a script in the base folder:

# ./script.rb
require "g11n"

G11n.path "i18ns"
G11n.locale :ru

G11n.t.home.land                           # => "Российская Федерация"

Also, the G11n::DSL module can be included in any object of class you want to use the #t method more confortably.

Note: g11n is planned to soon be made a Sinatra extension

Testing

Cucumber features and RSpec specs are provided to check functionality.

An exception is the G11n::Dictionary class, which is just a subclass of SymbolTable that recursively converts all hashes passed as argument to the initializer into Dictionaries. This is really handy.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.