Rails – Language Select

Provides a simple helper to get an HTML select list of languages using the ISO 639-1 standard.

Uses the two letter alpha codes to identify the language.

Install as a gem using

gem install language_select

Or put the following in your Gemfile

gem 'language_select'

Simple use supplying model and attribute as parameters:

language_select("user", "language")

Supplying priority languages to be placed at the top of the list:

language_select("user", "language", [ "English", "French", "German" ])

The language is stored using the ISO-639-1 two letter codes.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  def language_name
    ::LanguageSelect::LANGUAGES[language]
  end

end

bundle
bundle exec rspec

bundle exec appraisal

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