i18n-howto

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) in Rails How-To / best practices.

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These slides are the result of a Show & Tell at OOZOU in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Content

• Definitions
  • i18n, l10n
• Preparations
  • Raise an exception on missing translations
  • Instead of I18n.t() use t() shortcut in tests
• Best practices
  • Make sure things look pretty with a different text length
  • Internationalize user interface
  • Use correct ISO code for locale
  • Pluralization
  • Interpolation
• i18n: Front end
  • Regular views
  • Static javascript / coffeescript
• i18n: Database
  • ActiveRecord models
• Tools
  • i18n-tasks
  • l10n: webservices
• Application Logic
  • before_action
  • store prefered locale in User model
• Application Gotchas
  • Fragment Caching
• SEO Gotchas
  • Determine the locale (URL structure)
  • Duplicate content?
  • Sitemaps
  • hreflang link tags
  • TLDs, gTLDs, ccTLDs
  • Analytics

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Constantin Hofstetter

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