Today I want to show you a project I’ve started over a year ago, during Mendicant University core skills course. For those who don’t know, Mendicant University is a group of skilled software developers that offer courses, mentoring, and help out the community, started by Gregory Brown, and that nowadays counts with some other awesome … »

One of the beauties in the Open Source world is the possibility of reading other people source code and learn new things. However, lately I found out that not only the library code, but the test suite of several open source projects are full lessons for us. In this post, I want to tell you … »

As we already know, in Rails 3 all dependencies will be bundled. This means you will be able to use latest I18n version which includes several improvements by itself. Besides that, a couple things changed on Rails 3 I18n, some features were added and others were deprecated. This post is a quick walkthrough it: 1) … »

A new I18n gem just got released and it comes with two new backends extensions: Fast and InterpolationCompiler. First, what is a backend? I18n.t, I18n.translate, I18n.l and I18n.localize methods are actually just wrappers to I18n.backend, which is actually who does all the heavy lifting. This means that you can change your backend to other stuff, … »