This article is a short guide to how use gettext with ruby-on-rails. If you do not know gettext is the standard internationalisation (i18n) library of the GNU project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext. And this is the first part of the two articles. The second one might be found here. Since there are some of i18n plugins for rails why should you chose gettext? For some reasons. First as I said