GLoc is a powerful localization library. It was originally designed as a Rails plugin, but can also be used for plain Ruby projects. Here are a list of its main features:
- Lightweight and efficient.
- Uses file-based string bundles. Strings can also be set directly.
- Intelligent, cascading language configuration.
- Create flexible rules to handle issues such as pluralization.
- Includes an ActionController filter that auto-detects the client language.
- Works perfectly with Rails Engines and allows strings to be overridden just as easily as controllers, models, etc.
- Automatically localizes Rails functions such as distance_in_minutes, select_month etc
- Supports different charsets. You can even specify the encoding to use for each language seperately.
- Special Rails mods/helpers.