I just released locale_data, a library of .yml files containing translations of all country and language names in over 100 languages that you can use to localize your apps. Read more about it on this blog post.

I just released a new version of the webtranslateit gem, to sync your translation files between the Web Translate It service and your app. The gem now include an executable, so you can sync the language files of any kind of apps (not only Rails apps). These tools should make your internationalization experience much more enjoyable.

I just made a succinct and simple markdown reference you can include on your projects. human-markdown-reference is to markdown what human-textile-reference is to Textile.

Here is a post explaining why and how to build a demo for your web application. It’s easy, you should do it, too!

I just launched a Ruby on Rails plugin for the web-based translation tool Web Translate It. It adds rake tasks to your project to fetch your translations, as well as the ability to “autofetch” your translations files on page load. This is useful for a team of translators to test their translations on a staging environment.