What translation process do you use for your web app

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We're working on some Ruby on Rails web application which is currently in English but should be translated to more languages. We deploy new version of application to production every 2 weeks. Translators are a separate team.

We have a special page in admin area for making translations. Dictionaries are stored as YAML-files. We can let translator edit dictionaries in production and open language for visitors then it will be ready. Another way is to let translators to work on staging server and merge translations before deployment to productions.

Do somebody know a good process to synchronize work of developers and translators?

Thanks in advance.

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ruby-on-railsinternationalizationtranslation
add ruby in the title, please – sorin
I'm working on RoR application but the question was not about something RoR specific. – Konstantin Tikhonov

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37signals launched Tolk, a tool they used to translate Basecamp into several languages. I've not used it myself, but seems a handy tool to automate some parts of the process. It may be worth giving it a look.

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Did not you try http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ ? If you go with that, translators and developers can work parallel. Translators can use POEDIT to find the text in application and make the translation.