Internationalization with Rails

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About me

My name is Katherine

Muedas.

I am from Peru.

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I18n

Who can explain why

internationalization is

abbreviated as I18n?

I N T E R N A T I O N A L I Z A T I O N

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What is

Internationalization?

What is I18n?

The process of "internationalization" usually means

to abstract all strings and other locale specific bits

(such as date or currency formats) out of your

application. The process of "localization" means to

provide translations and localized formats for these

bits.

Why Use It?

Why Use It?

Better UX

Makes your product or message more accessible

More customers == MOAR profits

For Translation… obviously

All your static text is in one spot.

Easy to maintain and change

Keep code DRY

Organization

Why Use It?

Let’s Get Started

Empezemos!

Setting Up Your Translation File

/config/locale/en.yml

/config/locale/es.yml

In Your Views…

views/home/_header.haml

You can do more than just put

words or sentences in the

translation file…

Nest translations for organization

config/locale/en.yml

views/home/_about

.html.haml

You can change a photo based on

language

config/locale/en.yml

views/home/_header.haml

and for spanish…

config/locale/es.yml

views/home/_header.haml

You can put HTML inside

config/locale/en.yml

Loop through a list

config/locale/en.yml views/about/_about.haml

Interpolation

config/locale/es.yml

views/about/_about.haml

webpage

Setting the Locale/

Language in your

Routes!

By Sub Domainen.mysite.com

Does not work on Heroku without a domain.

A wild card SSL certificate is more expensive then a single domain certificate

Supports localization by country or by language

Cookies can be shared across all locales.

Setting locale in your routes

es.mysite.com peru.mysite.com

Cons

Pros

By Top-Level Domain

Setting locale in your routes

mysite.com

Cons

Pros

Expensive and time consuming to buy many domains.

Cookies cannot be shared across multiple locales

Not a good option for localizing by language

Can not different languages for different countries.

Supports localization by country.

mysite.pe mysite.ca

By Paramsmysite.com?locale=en

Params get lost when redirecting

Bad for SEO

Quick to implement

Could be used to store locale

Info in a user cookie

Setting locale in your routes

mysite.com?locale=es

Cons

Pros

By Scoping Routesmysite.com/en/contact

Easy to set up for hosting.

Locale is set in the url route so it will not get lost when you are

navigating to different pages.

The locale is in a better position based on a architectural

standpoint.

Setting locale in your routes

mysite.com/es

Pros

How to setup scoped

routes ?

Application.rb

config/application.rb

Routes.rb

Optional language can be passed in

config/routes.rb

/admins/sign_in

/en/admins/sign_in

/es/admins/sign_in

Links to change language

Thank You!!