The Rails Internationalization (I18n) API
This guide will walk you through the I18n API and contains a tutorial how to internationalize a Rails application from the start.
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en:
activerecord:
errors:
messages:
invalid: ...
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Central point to collect locale data for use in Ruby on Rails.
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