Globalize
Rails I18n de-facto standard library for ActiveRecord model/data translation. (by globalize)
FastGettext
Ruby GetText, but 12x faster + 530x less garbage + simple + clean namespace + threadsafe + extendable + multiple backends (by grosser)
| Globalize | FastGettext | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 2,167 | 407 | |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| 6.1 | 7.0 | |
| 5 months ago | 6 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Globalize
Posts with mentions or reviews of Globalize.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-28.
FastGettext
Posts with mentions or reviews of FastGettext.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-20.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Globalize and FastGettext you can also consider the following projects:
Mobility - Pluggable Ruby translation framework
i18n-tasks - Manage translation and localization with static analysis, for Ruby i18n
twitter-cldr-rb - Ruby implementation of the ICU (International Components for Unicode) that uses the Common Locale Data Repository to format dates, plurals, and more.
r18n - I18n tool to translate your Ruby application.
i18n - Internationalization (i18n) library for Ruby