Documentation

Frequently Asked Questions

You can find our FAQ here.

API Docs

Our API docs are here (currently not up to date though, sorry)

Howtos

There are several walkthrough- or howto-style articles available, each taking a different approach. We don’t guarantee the freshness of the presented information though.

• Sven’s Globalize Writeup – has sometimes been refered to as “the best documentation available for Globalize”
• Example Application – takes you step by step through the process of creating a Globalized example application
• Unit-tested Example – a walkthrough using a test-driven approach

Overviews

• Jeremy Voorhis’ Canada on Rails slides – a presentation’s slides, cool for a short overview [pdf]

Recipes

• HowTo: recipes – some tips, tricks and recipes
• The Internal Storage Mechanism For Globalize for Rails Model Translations – Saimon’s comprehensive intro and overview to Globalize’s alternative model translations storage mechanism
• Making migrating to Globalize’s internal storage mechanism easy – when you’re already using the default storage method for model translations: how do you migrate to the alternative mechanism easily?
• Namespaced View Translations – Saimon’s intro to namespacing viewtranslations with Globalize

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting – some things that might go wrong and what to do about them

Internals

• How Globalize works – explanation of the database tables (partly dated and incomplete)