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Many of our clients can't or don't want to design their user interfaces. In the absence of a...
In our daily life as web developers we are constantly faced with technical problems that can be solved with a...
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Resources Rails Guide: Internationalization API Guide to localizing a Rails application Locale-aware helpers in ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper
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