[LRUG] i18n and strings in config/locales

[Henrik Nyh]

We use our own github.com/barsoom/traco for translating model attributes. It’s worked great for us for 10 years or so, but now that we’re adding a few more locales, it’s starting to feel a bit much. Might switch to something like Globalize, or find/write something that stores translations in a single serialised column per model.

Those translations can be set via admin forms like any other model attribute, but we also have a bg job that two-way-syncs some of them to a translation tool so external translators can translate them in a suitable UI without access to our backend.

That translation tool is webtranslateit.com. I have many complaints (you often wait on it to sync without much help from the tooling; it effectively has a “git force push” merging model) but back when we picked it, it was the least bad one we could find.

We also use WTI for regular config/locales/**/*.yml translations. There we just have the devs “pull” translations via a CLI command every so often, commit and push. We get a chat notification when there’s new stuff in WTI.


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