Ruby on Rails translation with Crowdin

The most commonly used library for internationalizing Ruby on Rails applications is rails-i18n. A comprehensive guide on how to use it in your Rails applications can be found at the Rails I18n API.

Ruby on Rails YAML is a natively supported file format in Crowdin, so you don't need to install anything extra to use it. Simply upload your files to your project and start localizing.

File Format Details

Sample File

en:
  welcome:
    title: "Welcome!"
    content: "Welcome to the %{app_name}"

  example_array: ['checking', 'arrays']
  long_line: |
    Long 
    text

Translating Ruby on Rails

The root node of the YML file should always be a target language code in the ISO 639-1 format. RoR allows multiple locales to be stored in one file, but this is not currently supported by Crowdin. The recommended practice is to have one file per target locale.

The syntax for placeholders is as follows: %{var}.

Comments

en:

  first_key: "String for translation 1" #Context for string 1 

Plurals

en:

  not_found: "not found"

  not_saved:

    one: "one apple"

    other: "other apples"