On Aug 3, 11:25 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > Leonardo Mateo wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Pale Horse <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> I've not read this, though I imagine it to be overkill for my purposes. > > Really? > > You should read it. That's how rails works withi18n. Overkill would > > be to implement a different solution when a lot (and I mean a LOT) of > > people already worked it out in a really nice way. > > RailsI18Nis not "really nice". I recommend fast_gettext instead. >
Marnen, I am currently working on a multiple language application using rails I18n and globalize2 to facilitate the rendering of our application's static and activerecord database fields in multiple languages. Not knowing much about fast_gettext except what I have read on the github page, could you elaborate on your comment that I18n is not very nice? and given your experience explain what advantages a switch/utilization of fast gettext would provide. Also, would there be a steep learning curve by switching? Your thoughts would be much appreciated. Regards David > > If you think that translate an application to 6 different languages > > doesn't need an elegant and easy-to-maintain solution, then you're in > > trouble. > > Agreed. > > > > >>> Or is your question specifically related to how to store the user's > >>> preferred language. > > >> What I really want is to render a different column based on the session > >> data. > > No, you really don't. You want to use one of the existingI18N > solutions -- and you don't want to add a column to the DB every time you > need to support another language. > > > If you want to do that, it's a different story. You don't need to ask > > anybody to do that, just make a case/when structure and you'll be on > > your way. > > But don't do it. > > > > > -- > > Leonardo Mateo. > > There's no place like ~ > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
