Multilingual Web Applications

Not everyone speaks the same language, Google and Yahoo have lead the way to multilingual web applications. Rails promotes Web 2.0, and I think accessing your favorite application in your own language is a must for Web 2.0. I spent some time yesterday trying out the different ways of making my application support multiple languages, most of them were too complex for a Rails newbie to install and use. Rails has always been all about “out of the box” features, so I decided to sit and code up support for multilingual Rails.

These are some of the reports and benchmarks:
Run 1:

India in HINDI (No Lib) (0.11173)
India in HINDI (With Lib) (7.13423)

Run 2:

India in HINDI (No Lib) (0.05853)
India in HINDI (With Lib) (5.71569)

20 minutes and 2 smokes later….

Run 1:

India in HINDI (No Lib) (0.12789)
India in HINDI (With Lib) (0.14528)

Run 2:

India in HINDI (No Lib) (0.06777)
India in HINDI (With Lib) (0.09169)