[Rails-core] Localization ideas/proposal

Joshua Harvey
Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:08:57 -0000

Right on, Hammed. That''s a really good idea -- I''m going to
try to
work that into the code. The plugin already supports falling back to a
base language, but this would make it jive better with traditional
apps.

Hammed wrote:
I think it would be better to include the fields that require
localization in the original table. The advantage of this is that the
values in these fields could become the ''fallback'' values if a
localization for a value doesn''t exist for the specified locale or if
a locale isn''t specified.

Another advantage would be that it''ll be possible to drop your plugin
into an existing app and get the localization features without
changing anything (dropping columns).

Josh