[Storerb-devel] db model: Multilingualism

[Bill Guindon]

On 10/31/05, Peter Michaux <petermichaux at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On 31-Oct-05, at 10:21 AM, Peter Michaux wrote:
> > I'm starting to get an idea that we could drop the idea of dynamic text
> > all together.
>
> This will also drastically simplify the implementation of
> elasticpath-style virtual fields. There will be no need for
> acts_as_i18n_virtual_field. What a relief! There are so many benefits
> to dropping dynamic text. The database schema will be so simple!

I hadn't thought about it that far, but yeah, it seems that having
separate pages per language would take much of the language burden off
of the database.

> Paul, I think all your work on acts_as_i18n plugin should slide right
> over to acts_as_virtual_field.
>
> I'm going to start looking at the various ways to handle static text
> (eg gettext and Tobin's method)
>
> - Peter
>
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