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= Localization Simplified (aka LocalizationSimplified or L10n-simplified)
Localization Simplified plugin for Ruby on Rails. Really simple localization. Written by Jesper Rønn-Jensen ( http://justaddwater.dk/ )
The goal is to have a dead simple plugin for one-language (non-english) Rails
applications. Many of the existing localization / internationalization plugins are
too big for this and hard to get started with. Just dump this plugin in
/vendor/plugins/, set your language and off you go.
Unlike the more advanced plugins, you don't have to translate anything in your
view files. Just use the standard Rails commands you're used to.
The simple approach also makes limits. Make sure you understand them to decide if
this plugin is right for you.
I use this plugin when creating new projects. Then later in the development
process I can decide to change to a more advanced localization plugin (if necessary)
=== What it does
This plugin modifies the following most used helpers for Rails
* Sets UTF-8 connection to database (known to work with MySQL and PostgreSQL)
* Localized monthnames on date_select etc. (changing the order of Y-M-D, on date_select and datetime_select from 0.7)
* Localized ActiveRecord errors (and error headings)
* Localized distance_of_time_in_words
* Localized to_currency (from 0.7 also changing the order of unit/currency)
* Simple pluralization also available in the lang-file
* Uses standard Rails methods. In this way, there is no tedious rewrite required
to localize your view files
=== Limitations
* More advanced features are not likely to be available here.
* If you want support for multiple languages, use another L10N/I18n plugin, like
GLoc or Globalize
It could be a good idea to take a look at the [comparison chart](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/InternationalizationComparison) on the Ruby on Rails wiki
=== Version notes
* For Rails 1.1.x or below, use version 0.7.1 of this plugin
* For Rails 1.2 or above, use version 0.8 (or higher) of this plugin
=== Supported languages
Curr ently supported languages:
* English (for running test cases and comparing to normal texts)
* German
* Spanish
* Spanish (argentinian)
* French
* Dutch
* Italian
* Danish
* Swedish
* Finnish
* Canadian French
* Korean
* Swedish Chef, and Pirate talk (just for the fun of it)
* any other language you want. Just dump your translation in the /lib folder
=== Download code
* Project homepage: http://rubyforge.org/projects/l10n-simplified/
* Subversion access: svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/l10n-simplified
* Browse: http://rubyforge.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=l10n-simplified
=== Usage:
in init.rb, set your language. That's it. Now your db connection is running UTF-8 and standard Rails output is localized.
If your view files contains text containing non-English characters (such as ß,ö,ñ or å), you probably also want to save your files as UTF-8.
=== Installation:
1. Just copy this plugin into your /vendor/plugins/ folder
2. Choose your lang-file in init.rb (default is Danish because I am Danish)
3. no step three :)
A special note of WARNING: All files here are saved using UTF-8 encoding.
It's not required for working, I guess, but other encodings could bring you in trouble.
=== Your help
Feel free to use, translate, modify and improve this code.
Do send me translations, improvements, etc. I cannot promise to use it,
but chances are that I will unless it bloats the code here completely or makes
code harder to maintain.
I added FIXME notes in the code to indicate where I also could use help.
=== TODO / wishlist
* A Rails application for testing L10n-simplified. This is top of my wish-list.
I'd like it to contain a test suite testing ActiveRecord errors, datehelper, necessary
numberhelper etc.
* Rake task to create a release
* Better tests to verify both hooks in Rails and this plugin
* Better tests to verify each lang-file
* Create rdoc in UTF-8 format and not including every lang-file (only lang_en.rb)
* Rake task that modifies all view-files and converts them to UTF-8
* Also a task that modifies all generators to use UTF-8
=== DONE
* --- release 0.8 ---
* Works with Rails 1.2 (not working with earlier versions)
* Whitespace/formatting modifications. Removed commented code not needed
* Removed code from plugin because Rails 1.2 date_select and datetime_select
now support :order
* ActiveRecord hooks updated for Rails 1.2 (thanks Casper Fabricius)
* Dots after day number in time formats (Danish), to keep it consistent with Date formats
* --- release 0.7.1 ---
* Fixed RJS bug where javascript content-header was overwritten with text/html (thanks Jakob Skjerning)
* Small language corrections by Wijnand Wiersma
* PostGres friendly: Added quotes around ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute "SET NAMES 'UTF8'" (thanks Wijnand Wiersma)
* German language errors corrected by Matthias Tarasiewicz
* Added "no step three" in installation section :)
* --- release 0.7 ---
* Fixed messed-up ø's and a few wording changes in README
* Override +number_to_currency+ and +datetime_select+ to support :order
even though I prefer these changes to go into Rails Core (2006-10-10)
* Added italian lang file (thanks Michele Franzin) (2006-10-08)
* Added argentinian flavoured Spanish lang File + corrected bug in lang_es (thanks Damian Janowski) (2006-10-03)
* German translation issues (thanks Christian W. Zuckschwerdt) (2006-10-03)
* Fixed typo in README File (thanks Diego Algorta Casamayou) (2006-10-02)
* Bugfix removed incorrect 'then' after 'else' (thanks Michele Franzin)(2006-09-16)
* Added augmented and corrected distance_of_time_in_words from Rails trunk (2006-09-07)
* Added date_select and datetime_select on the helper page (2006-09-07)
* Updated dutch date-time formats, thanks Jeroen Houben (2006-09-07)
* --- release 0.6.1 ---
* Added comments in all lang-files, thanks Jarkko Laine for the idea (2006-09-07)
* Bugfix: Replaced hardcoded string in distance_of_time_in_words when :include_seconds was false (2006-08-30)
* Added Canadian French translation (thanks Daniel) (2006-08-25)
* Added comments in lang-file for documentation of how to localize (2006-08-25)
* Added French translation (thanks Fred Cavazza) (2006-08-25)
* Added Finnish translation (thanks Jarkko Laine) (2006-08-25)
* Bugfix re-added HTTP header for UTF-8. Necessary for some lang-files (2004-08-24)
* --- release 0.6 ---
* Renamed test files to make rake test command work (2006-08-23)
* Localized time "Wed Aug 23 12:38:22 Romance Daylight Time 2006" =>
"onsdag d. 23 august 2006 12:38:22" (Danish)
* Reordering of date_select fields (2006-08-23)
* Test that plugin works with the Rails version it is installed next to (2006-08-20)
* Added Dutch translation lang_nl.rb, thanks to Jeroen Houben (2006-08-20)
* Added Pirate language lang_pirate.rb, thanks to Tobias Michaelsen (2006-08-18)
* Added Date and Time#to_formatted_s with locale specific strings (2006-08-18)
* Added MIT-license, copied from Ruby on Rails (2006-08-13)
* Added tests for plugin (2006-08-13)
* Localized version of Array.to_sentence (2006-08-09)
* Added test scaffold (2006-08-09)
* Added swedish language, thanks to Olle Jonsson (2006-08-09)
* Localized version of to_currency helper (2006-08-07)
=== Credits
This plugin uses a few bits and pieces from other Rails plugins GLoc (http://rubyforge.org/projects/gloc/) and swe_rails (http://opensource.ki.se/swe_rails.html)
Created 2006-07-28 by
Jesper Rønn-Jensen http://justaddwater.dk/
http://rubyforge.org/projects/l10n-simplified/
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/localization_simplified
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