Spree as multilingual/bilingual site

Question

Is spree suitable for multi/bilingual e-commerce site?

By default it supports internationalization (i18n - http://guides.spreecommerce.com/i18n.html). It gives an impression that spree is bilingual friendly but I'm missing one piece of the puzzle. Translation of product names, descriptions, attributes, categories.

What is your good practice when it comes to translation of products and categories (including metadata)?

gem version: Spree 1.1.1

We've tested https://github.com/jipiboily/spree_multi_lingual - unfortunately it's outdated. — Munhitsu, Jul 09 '12 at 03:27
https://github.com/kamilc/spree-change-locale is a nice utility but it only helps with changing the locale. — Munhitsu, Jul 09 '12 at 03:27
It's 2016. Spree has been discontinued. Hopefully Solidus will fill this gap. — sybind, Feb 25 '16 at 04:38

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '12 at 00:41

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I work on Spree as the Community Manager.

We are actually having a discussion at the moment regarding the translation of things within Spree using I18n. Most things are translated, but there's still a few spiky edges that you may come across. We're looking to make that easier for people.

Now in regards to the attributes on products, that's possible using a plugin built by one of the guys in the community, Tomasz Stachewicz, and is called spree_globalize. Give it a shot.

answered Jul 03 '12 at 00:41

Ryan Bigg

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Thanks Ryan, I'll certainly test it. So far we've had bad luck with products/taxons translations due to outdated plugins. – Munhitsu Jul 04 '12 at 08:03
The spree_globalize extension says 'WARNING: Intensive merge and re-work in progress. Do not use for now!' – Matthijs P Jul 04 '12 at 19:14
@MatthijsP thanks. Seems like we are still looking for a working solution :( – Munhitsu Jul 09 '12 at 03:25
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@ryan-bigg We've failed with spree_globalize :( – Munhitsu Jul 09 '12 at 03:30

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '12 at 17:57

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For our bilingual spree store http://www.artdesanimaux.com we use spree_multi_lingual with Spree 1.1.2 and it is working properly. Don't know why you say its outdated?

We made a few fixes & added translations for shipping methods on our fork

answered Aug 13 '12 at 17:57

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Can you please tell in detail how you achieved this or please provide link to the github repository so that I can understand the actual flow.as I am new to Spree and struggling for three days to make it multilingual. – Sivanand Kheti Jan 15 '13 at 12:38

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