Getting ready for I18n, Shopify's case study
summary
Shopify localizes its admin by detecting hard‑coded user strings with RuboCop custom cops (about a hundred rules) plus erb lint and Nokogiri for HTML text nodes, autoextracting strings into YAML keys via RuboCop autocorrect, blocking PRs with violations. The stack stays on Rails I18n (not gettext) despite >3,000 translation files and >5s boot cost; a pseudo‑localization gem checks layout and a team migrates MySQL to utf8mb4 migration; a central address‑format service and npm client produce locale‑correct addresses.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 6:01Static code analysis
- 14:47RuboCop autocorrection
- 21:11Pseudolocalization
- 23:24MySQL character set
- 24:32Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane
- 24:46Utf8mb4
- 25:52Expose your app to UTF8 characters
- 26:07Translation vs Localization
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