GlobaLite is meant to be a breed of the best i18n /l10n plugins available for Rails.

LATEST UPDATE:

• May 16 2008: Added support for Russian, Argentinean Spanish, Dutch + fixed a #select_month bug
• May 14 2008: Added support for Polish + validation error localization (GitHub only)
• May 13 2008: Rails 2.1rc1 compatible + support for Hungarian. (available only @ GitHub)
• May 1 2008: GlobaLite example app moved to GitHub: http://github.com/matta/globalite-example
• March 4 2008: GlobaLite is moving to GitHub: http://github.com/matta/globalite/tree/master

git clone git://github.com/matta/globalite.git I'll keep the repo in sync for a little while until I totally switch to git. Feel free to fork github and send me pull requests.

• Sept 2nd 2007:
• Added Chinese localization thanks to Ivan Chang
• Added pluralization support
• Added ActiveRecord error message localization
• Updated the sample application

• August 16th 2007: Added German Localization thanks to Ralph von Der Heyden!

• August 1 2007: updated the French translation(Alexandre Bournier), reverted the recent change to the model error msg handling since it doesn't seem stable

• July 31 2007: Added better model error localization name translation contributed by Guillaume Belleguic

• July 2 2007: SAMPLE Application now available: http://www.railsontherun.com/2007/7/2/globalite-sample-application

Globalite offers

• easy UI localization.
• Rails localization.
• user content available in multiple languages.
• Active Record validation localization

• Simple UI localization
• support different locales
• yml file based
• simple syntax
• no setup needed
• enough for most projects needing localization
• pass variables to the localization and let the translator deal with it

• Simple Rails Localization
• support different locales
• nothing to do, rails comes in your own language (including currency conversion and other helpers)
• yml file based localization for easy update
• support for Rails 1.2x
• simple to maintain
• simple to add/edit a new locale
• Built-in Rails localization in:
• English (UK)
• English (US)
• French (FR)
• Spanish (Spain, Argentina)
• Italian
• Portuguese (Brazilian and Portuguese - thanks to Marcus Derencius)
• German (Germany) (thanks to Ralph von Der Heyden)
• Chinese(CN, HK, TW)
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Russian
• Dutch

• Simple content i18n/l10n (coming soon)

Go to http://www.railsontherun.com/globalite for more info and news

Submit your language file in your own language to Matt Aimonetti: mattAimonetti@gmail.com