Overview

The rails-i18n project is the official community-managed repository for collecting and centralizing locale data for Ruby on Rails applications. It provides a comprehensive set of translations for the default strings used in Rails helpers and frameworks like Active Record, Active Model, and Action View.

By including this gem in your project, you gain access to a wide array of community-contributed translations, making it significantly easier to internationalize (i18n) and localize (l10n) your application.

Key Features

  • Extensive Locale Data: Provides a vast collection of locale files (.yml and .rb) for numerous languages and regional variations.
  • Pluralization Rules: Includes sophisticated pluralization rules for languages that don't follow the simple one/other pattern of English.
  • Transliteration: Offers character transliteration rules for converting non-Latin characters into ASCII approximations, useful for creating user-friendly URLs or search indexes.
  • Ordinalization: Supplies rules for converting numbers into their ordinal string representation (e.g., 1 -> 1st, 2 -> 2nd) for various languages.
  • Rails Integration: Seamlessly integrates with the Rails asset pipeline and I18n framework via a Railtie.

This documentation will guide you through installing, configuring, and using the gem, as well as contributing back to the community.

License

This project is released under the MIT License. For full details, see the MIT-LICENSE.txt file in the repository.