If you're looking for localizing you rails application, look here:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/InternationalizationComparison
But if you want a simple file with messages, you can use YAML...
-- my_strings.messages file (It must conform to YAML file format):
error.msg.login.admin: You need to login before....
error.msg.field.required: This field is required,......
-- ruby code to load it
require "yaml"
messsage = File.open('my_strings.messages') { |yaml_file|
YAML::load(yaml_file) }
-- and use it like a hash (It's a Hash indeed!)
messsage['error.msg.login.admin']
HTH
- H
