shioyama/mobility

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1136 stars · 96 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Mobility is a pluggable Ruby gem for storing and retrieving translated attributes on classes, supporting multiple storage backends such as shared translation tables, translatable columns, and PostgreSQL b/hstore. It works with both ActiveRecord and Sequel ORMs.

Use cases

• translate model attributes into multiple languages in a Rails app
• store translations in PostgreSQL b columns
• migrate from Globalize to a maintained i18n gem
• add multilingual content to ActiveRecord or Sequel models
• store blog post content in different languages
• localize image captions or bookmark tags

When to choose

• you need flexible, pluggable translation backends in Ruby
• you use ActiveRecord or Sequel and want multilingual attributes
• you want PostgreSQL-specific storage like b or hstore for translations

When to avoid

• you need i18n for static strings and UI labels rather than database content (use ruby-i18n)
• your project is not Ruby-based
• you need translation management workflows with human translators

Facets

library · maturity active

internationalization orm serialization web-development databases ruby i18n activerecord sequel postgresql b hstore model-translations ruby-gem localization rails

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