Beginning Rails 6: From Novice to Professional

© Brady Somerville, Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr and Rida Al Barazi 2020

B. Somerville et al.Beginning Rails 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5716-6_17

17. Internationalization

Brady Somerville¹ , Adam Gamble², Cloves Carneiro Jr.³ and Rida Al Barazi⁴

(1)

Bowling Green, KY, USA

(2)

Gardendale, AL, USA

(3)

Hollywood, FL, USA

(4)

FONTHILL, ON, Canada

 

Internationalization in Rails used to be a complex task until Rails version 2.2 came out with internationalization and localization support built in. Since then, launching an application in another language or even multiple languages has become a relatively simple task.

What is internationalization, and why do we care? According to Wikipedia:

Internationalization is the process of designing a software application ...