Iain,

thanks for getting back to me! I already had a look at
translatable_columns before writing my first message here but until
reading yours didn't realize you were the author. It is indeed a fine
plugin which I briefly used for a mock-up like application but doesn't
quite fit my new project.

IMHO storing all translations of all attributes in one and the same db
record is just not feasible when you've got a lot of attributes per
model or many translations per attribute. Or both, as in my case.. ;)
Still though, it is an awesome plugin for quickly developing i.e. a
bilingual application.

Having also had a look at the plugins list you linked to, I guess
Globalize would -- at least in theory -- be the best fit for my needs.
So I will try it out and report back here, maybe also write up some
sort of introduction to using it, as I couldn't find any howto-style
resources for Globalize 2 yet.

I just held back on using it because I wasn't quite sure whether
http://github.com/joshmh/globalize2/tree/master really represented the
latest available version (as the last commit happened some 6 weeks or
so ago) and whether the API already was at least relatively future
proof.

Looking at http://github.com/joshmh/globalize2/network there are quite
a few forks already out there. Are the corresponding authors present
on this list? Have decisions be made to merge some of them back into
joshm's repository? Is that even the main line of development? So many
questions.. I'm looking forward to the new mailing list.. :)

I would also be very interested in reading more about the concepts
behind it. It would be fantastic if someone could point me to some of
the discussions that have lead to Globalize 2 being designed the way
it is. Presuming these discussions took place on a publicly available
mailing list? Getting such a high level overview is always very
helpful in getting actively involved in development.

Best,
Niels

On Jan 12, 7:40 pm, "Iain Hecker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Niels,
>
> Not to blow my own horn too much, if it's only attribute translations
> you want, you could have a look at translatable columns 
> plugin:http://github.com/iain/translatable_columns
>
> We are still working on Globalize2, but we are in the middle of
> reorganizing to speed up development.
>
> And yes, this is the right place to ask about rails i18n related
> matters. A globalize mailinglist has been made last weekend, but it
> hasn't been announced yet, so no members there yet. (this is no
> announcement either, we're still working on it).
>
> Furthermore, a list of plugins is available at:http://rails-i18n.org/wiki
>
> Good luck,
> Iain
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