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Multilingual Websites with Ruby on Rails (3)

Part 3 – Quality Assurence Texte gehören zu den Teilen einer Anwendung, die häufig geändert werden. Wenn dann noch externe Übersetzer im Spiel sind, kann es leicht zu fehlenden Übersetzungen kommen Wir möchten deshalb automatisch testen, dass es zu allen Texten in Sprache A auch Übersetzungen in Sprache B vorhanden sind. Ein solcher Test allein …

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Multilingual Websites with Ruby on Rails (2)

Part 2 – Variables, Validations, Model Classes Web pages often contains sentences in which a single word is changing. For example, “You are logged in as xxxx.” For the translation, we can obviously assemble the sentence from the components. There is often a problem, because the order of the words is different in different languages …

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Multilingual Websites with Ruby on Rails

Part 1 – Overview Writing software for several languages is an ever recurrent challenge. Ruby on Rails provides solutions to most of the standard problems in web development. But it needed time until the version 2.2. for the “Internationalization API ” to become an official part of Ruby on Rails. .