After nearly two years of Rails development it’s more than time that I released my first (official) plugin. So here it goes.
If you’ve watched Rails on Lighthouse and GitHub lately, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve proposed quite a number of patches, especially regarding the new Rails i18n plugin (which by the way got me the 2nd place in the July 2008 Rails Hackfest - congrats to Tarmo Tänav at this point).
However, the date and time API got only partial i18n/l10n coverage - date and time formatting wasn’t included - which is where my new plugin, localized_dates, might come in handy.
The quickest way to get going is to simply install the plugin from its GitHub repository:
$ ./script/plugin install git://github.com/clemens/localized_dates.git
As part of its installation, this will copy two locale files (en-US.rb and de-AT.rb) to your config/locales folder. en-US is basically there to keep the current functionality and date definitions in place. de-AT serves as a demo on how you can write your own locale.
If you need any further help, I suggest reading the README over at GitHub.
If you like it, consider rating it at its Agile Webdevelopment plugin page.