# \[ANN\] Ruby-Locale-0.9.0 / Ruby-Locale for Ruby on Rails-0.1.0

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ruby-locale-0-9-0-ruby-locale-for-ruby-on-rails-0-1-0/50538>\
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**Created:** [4 December 2008 16:07 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ruby-locale-0-9-0-ruby-locale-for-ruby-on-rails-0-1-0/50538 "2008-12-04T16:07:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Masao\_Mutoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@Masao\_Mutoh](https://rubytalk.org/u/Masao_Mutoh)\
**Post date:** [4 December 2008 16:07 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ruby-locale-0-9-0-ruby-locale-for-ruby-on-rails-0-1-0/50538/1 "2008-12-04T16:07:41Z")

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Hi,

I'm pleased to announce 2 new libraries for Localization.

\* Ruby-Locale-0.9.0  
\* Ruby-Locale for Ruby on Rails-0.1.0

= Website  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/locale](http://rubyforge.org/projects/locale)  
[http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-locale.html](http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-locale.html)  
[http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-locale-howto.html](http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-locale-howto.html) (HOWTO)  
[http://www.yotabanana.com/localeapi/files/README.html](http://www.yotabanana.com/localeapi/files/README.html)

(Sample Website)  
[http://www.yotabanana.com/locale\_rails\_sample/](http://www.yotabanana.com/locale_rails_sample/)

= Install  
$ gem install locale  
$ gem install locale\_rails

= Ruby-Locale-0.9.0  
&nbsp;&nbsp;Ruby-Locale is the pure ruby library which provides basic APIs for localization.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;It aims to support all environments which ruby works and all kind of programs  
&nbsp;&nbsp;(GUI, WWW, library, etc), and becomes the hub of other i18n/l10n libs/apps to  
&nbsp;&nbsp;handle major locale ID standards.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Manage Locale ID(Language Tag)  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Thread safe. Each thread has a Locale ID.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* POSIX, CLDR, IETF(RFC4646, 3066(BCP47)), Win32 and Java language tags  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and convert the tag each others.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Auto detect Locale ID. POSIX(Unix/Linux/\*BSD), Win32, JRuby, CGI.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Resources  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* ISO 639-3 languages  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* ISO 3166 region(countries).  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Support Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.1, JRuby 1.1.4. Tested on Win32 and Linux.

= Ruby-Locale for Ruby on Rails-0.1.0  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ruby-Locale for Ruby on Rails is the L10n plugin which works with Ruby on Rails 2.2.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the first library which depends on Ruby-Locale.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It supports Rails i18n and have the features below:  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Auto-Detect the client locale  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Detect candidate locales from supported locales by the application.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Localized Routes  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Localized Action/Fragment cache  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Localized view template files

= Special Thanks  
To the previous maintainers of Ruby-Locale.  
\* Brian Pontarelli  
\* Antonio Terceiro

Best Regards,  
Masao.

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> .:% Masao Mutoh\<[mutoh@highway.ne.jp](mailto:mutoh@highway.ne.jp)\>