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# Ruby I18n
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[](https://travis-ci.org/ruby-i18n/i18n)
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Ruby Internationalization and localization solution.
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Currently maintained by @radar.
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## Usage
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### Rails
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You will most commonly use this library within a Rails app.
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[See the Rails Guide](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html) for an example of its usage.
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### Ruby (without Rails)
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If you want to use this library without Rails, you can simply add `i18n` to your `Gemfile`:
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```ruby
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gem 'i18n'
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```
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Then configure I18n with some translations, and a default locale:
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```ruby
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I18n.load_path << Dir[File.expand_path("config/locales") + "/*.yml"]
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I18n.default_locale = :en # (note that `en` is already the default!)
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```
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A simple translation file in your project might live at `config/locales/en.yml` and look like:
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```yml
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en:
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test: "This is a test"
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```
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You can then access this translation by doing:
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```ruby
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I18n.t(:test)
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```
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You can switch locales in your project by setting `I18n.locale` to a different value:
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```ruby
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I18n.locale = :de
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I18n.t(:test) # => "Dies ist ein Test"
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```
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## Features
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* translation and localization
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* interpolation of values to translations (Ruby 1.9 compatible syntax)
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* pluralization (CLDR compatible)
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* customizable transliteration to ASCII
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* flexible defaults
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* bulk lookup
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* lambdas as translation data
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* custom key/scope separator
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* custom exception handlers
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* extensible architecture with a swappable backend
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## Pluggable Features
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* Cache
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* Pluralization: lambda pluralizers stored as translation data
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* Locale fallbacks, RFC4647 compliant (optionally: RFC4646 locale validation)
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* [Gettext support](https://github.com/ruby-i18n/i18n/wiki/Gettext)
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* Translation metadata
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## Alternative Backend
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* Chain
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* ActiveRecord (optionally: ActiveRecord::Missing and ActiveRecord::StoreProcs)
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* KeyValue (uses active_support/json and cannot store procs)
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For more information and lots of resources see [the 'Resources' page on the wiki](https://github.com/ruby-i18n/i18n/wiki/Resources).
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## Tests
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You can run tests both with
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* `rake test` or just `rake`
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* run any test file directly, e.g. `ruby -Ilib:test test/api/simple_test.rb`
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You can run all tests against all Gemfiles with
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* `ruby test/run_all.rb`
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The structure of the test suite is a bit unusual as it uses modules to reuse
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particular tests in different test cases.
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The reason for this is that we need to enforce the I18n API across various
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combinations of extensions. E.g. the Simple backend alone needs to support
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the same API as any combination of feature and/or optimization modules included
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to the Simple backend. We test this by reusing the same API definition (implemented
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as test methods) in test cases with different setups.
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You can find the test cases that enforce the API in test/api. And you can find
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the API definition test methods in test/api/tests.
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All other test cases (e.g. as defined in test/backend, test/core_ext) etc.
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follow the usual test setup and should be easy to grok.
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## More Documentation
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Additional documentation can be found here: https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/wiki
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## Authors
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* [Sven Fuchs](http://www.artweb-design.de)
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* [Joshua Harvey](http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/759-joshua-harvey)
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* [Stephan Soller](http://www.arkanis-development.de)
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* [Saimon Moore](http://saimonmoore.net)
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* [Matt Aimonetti](https://matt.aimonetti.net/)
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## Contributors
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https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/graphs/contributors
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## License
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MIT License. See the included MIT-LICENSE file.
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