Kelvin Raffael Stinghen

Rails Installer - Site Translator

Hi.

Once upon a time, a young brazilian guy felt he needs to do something more useful to the world. So, he translated a site to his language.

Nice to meet you, I’m that guy. And the lucky site was the Rails Installer site. But the guy (me) left a gift pretty more interesting that only the translation: the hability for YOU to continue this awesome history!

Right, enough fables. I refactor the site to support translations. If you want to translate it to your language, follow these steps:

• Go to the site repository
• Fork it!
• Clone it!
• Copy the config/locales/en.yml file and paste to the same folder.
• Rename the new file to your language abbreviation (e.g. es.yml for spanish).
• Open, the file, and translate the texts!
• Commit the file.
• Push it!
• Open a pull request to the main repository.
• Be happy and die with the assurance that this world will not forget you (or not).

About the story: if you are asking yourself if this was irony, maybe it’s a little, but this was my first step in the open-source community, and I’m really very proud of it. Even that’s a little step, finally, I’M IN!

And, if you’d never heard about it, I advise you to really take a look at Rails Installer. If you are using Rails with Windows, you will never regret this.

By now, it’s this, bye.

Published at 06 Jan 2014