Internationalization on Rails: Unpacking the Rails I18n Toolkit

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Claims that Rails plus a few gems let an app go from monolingual to multilingual with real formatting and plural rules, not just translated strings. Uses i18n-tasks to bulk machine‑translate via an API, twitter_cldr to pull CLDR date/number formats, and rails-i18n to supply pluralization and list connectors. Loads CLDR data, generates locale YAML, and the resulting app renders localized dates, plurals, and lists correctly — four small gems and it works.

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1. 0:00Rails I18n toolkit intro
2. 2:27Why localization matters
3. 4:55Rails localization basics
4. 5:36Externalizing text
5. 7:43Choosing locales
6. 10:12Machine translation
7. 13:02Dates and formats
8. 18:17CLDR date formatting
9. 20:52Plurals handling
10. 23:42List connectors & punctuation
11. 27:40Summary

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