Automatically Translate base english language files

grails install-plugin autotranslate

Recently I’ve been doing a lot more work with apps that need to natively support i18n and it has been a great experience, it really does force you to think about externalizing content and not just throwing strings everywhere.

As a poor linguist however the only language I know very well is English so testing i18n was becoming a little tricky, Google translate was useful but cumbersome. Enter the Grails Auto Translate plugin which combines Grails and Google translate in a world of ease.

Full details at http://bradleybeddoes.com/2010/11/grails-auto-translate-plugin/