Globalize vs FastGettext

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)

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Globalize		FastGettext
	Project
1	Mentions	-
2,134	Stars	393
0.1%	Growth	-
3.0	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	Ruby License

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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.

RoR Gems: Pin To Plane For Developing RoR Application
12 projects | /r/TechnoMation | 28 Feb 2021

5. Globalize

FastGettext

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastGettext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning FastGettext yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Globalize and FastGettext you can also consider the following projects:

Mobility - Pluggable Ruby translation framework

i18n - Internationalization (i18n) library for Ruby

r18n - I18n tool to translate your Ruby application.

i18n-tasks - Manage translation and localization with static analysis, for Ruby i18n

Traco - Translatable columns for Ruby on Rails, stored in the model table itself.

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.

i18n-backend-side_by_side - Tired of jumping between language files when translating keys? Stop jumping and have all the languages side by side.

Termit - Translations with speech synthesis in your terminal as a ruby gem