Introducing Copycopter: let your clients do the copy writing

Re:Introducing Copycopter: let your clients do the copy writing by zach on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @02:14PM (#2198857)

This is basically localizing your app from developerese into clientspeak, right? I would think a highly client-accessible Rails i18n solution might be even more useful.

I'm thinking in particular about tr8n, whose lead developer presented at the LA Ruby Meetup and blew me away with the level of work that had been put into the system by the team at Geni. The focus is on crowdsourcing your translations, and I can tell you that's not at all unrealistic with the capabilities it has. I did a site with Globalize three years ago and am just amazed how far a leap ahead tr8n is even without the crowdsourcing aspect.

I hadn't thought about using this for a monolingual site but now I can see the use.

http://www.tr8n.org/

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Re:Introducing Copycopter: let your clients do the copy writing by JonnieCache on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @02:26PM (#2198914)

>highly client-accessible Rails i18n solution

Great idea. I can see it now:

    ./config/locales/en-dev.yml
    ./config/locales/en-client.yml

Slap on a controller and some views to edit it and you're away. Gonna have to think carefully about security though.

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