I rebuilt the system into a CMS, before I had ever heard of a CMS, and set it up with a clearly-defined workflow, including permissions and an approval process, which gave them the ability to change the root content while depriving them of the ability to change the final output.
This solved the whole problem, because what was really going on was that the earlier, crappier system had enforced a poorly-conceived workflow which made problems inevitable.
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…view ? Is there any management required or server does everything itself. Especially when using a CMS where DB structure is prepdefined
A: MySQL Server will not automatically define any indexes for you. Hopefully your CMS already comes with reasonable set of indexes, if not you will need to add indexes manually.
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…Sure, Rails was only at version 0.something, but he rewrote our Java based CMS to Ruby and Rails during my absence, adding a few new features while at it. This was big: our production times decreased substantially and we could take on more and more interesting clients. We have been in love with Ruby ever since.
Flash forward seven years. August 10, 2012. Exactly ten years after saying we should start a company we have a team of seven people, building great stuff from our Amsterdam…
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…, keep them centralized, e.g. config/locales/documents/terms.en.yml , if they're not in your CMS.
Use multiple YML files
If your app has different parts with different i18n needs, consider using multiple files.
Perhaps you have an admin section with only one or two locales, and a public section with a bunch.
Instead of having the translator needlessly translate your admin section to every locale, split it into a config/locales/en.yml and a config/locales/admin.en.yml .
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…suggests is that the content should be set up in multiple flavours in the first place (usually within the CMS) so that a developer can use it in various ways for use on the main website, or on the iPad app, or on your phone, your TV, the monthly newsletter. Rather than replicating content for each of these different places, the content is set up once - perhaps in chunks, or with shorter and longer versions - so that there can be a conscious decision for each instance of the article.
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