[Rails] [ANN] Internationalization Library: MLL

Tobias Luetke tobias.luetke at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 21:00:44 GMT 2005


Amazing work. Mad props 


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:54:44 +0100, F. Egger
<f.egger.mailings at digitpaint.nl> wrote:
> I proudly present the first trunk versions of MLL: the Multil Language
> Library.
> 
> The MLL can be found at: http://dev.digitpaint.nl/projects/mll
> 
> Features
> ======
> 
> * Reads locale strings and L10N strings from a YML file
> * L10N support through gettext, some native functions like a
>     localized Time.strftime is available, but untested and 5 times
>     slower than the native Time.strftime. (If getttext is not available, it
>     will use this pure-ruby version as a fallback)
> * I18N support with a gettext like function: _("")
> * Includes a "harvester" for going trough HTML/XML, ERB and
>     Ruby files and extracting strings to localize
> 
> Transparent rails integration
> =====================
> * By just require the ActionController extensions and setting a
>     locale path, controllers and views support _("") on a language that
> can be set per request.
> * Can do template translations before they are rendered without
>     having to encapsulate all strings with <%= _("string") %>. This
> template translation however
>     has to be done through some kind of cache.
> 
> Note: The library is although usable, in a very early state of
> development. Not much testing is done with it. All help on making this a
> better lib, is deeply apprecciated!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Flurin Egger
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