Installation

After generating the login system, edit your app/controllers/application.rb and app/helpers/application_helper.rb files. The beginning of your ApplicationController should look something like this:

require 'localization'

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  include Localization

And your ApplicationHelper module should look like this:

module ApplicationHelper
  include Localization

Additionally, you’ll need to includes this module as appropriate to use it elsewhere, such as in your views. You also need to add the following at the end of your config/environment.rb file:

require ‘environments/localization_environment’ require ‘localization’ Localization::load_localized_strings

Under the ‘enviroments’ subdirectory, you’ll find localization_environment.rb. Edit this file as necessary…

Requirements

This module requires iconv support. This is installed by default on most *nix distributions, but not on Windows.

You need to put your translations in the files lang/.yaml. Then, the :default_language => [language] configuration variable will ensure that the appropriate file is loaded.

How to use it

When you want a localized string such as “localized_hello”, simply create a new entry in all supported lannguage YAML files of the form:

In en.yaml:

localized_hello: hello

In sp.yaml:

localized_hello: hola

Then in your code, you assign the string as follows:

str_var = l(:localized_hello)

In the environments/localization_environment file, set the configuration variable :default_language to either ‘en’ or ‘sp.’ That’s it!

Changelog

1.0.7 Fixed README to indicate dependency on iconv 1.0.1 Fixed a few problems, including with test suite 1.0.0 First gem release