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For anyone working on a Rails application which deals with countries or languages, the official source of data is the International Standards Association, specifically ISO 3166 for countries and ISO 639 for languages.

To make it easier to get this data into your Rails application, I’ve created two generators which automatically create the models, migrations and data you’ll need and bundled them up in a handy Rails plug-in.

Usage couldn’t be simpler…

script/plugin install git://github.com/cameronyule/isodata.git

If you want country data…

script/generate countries
rake db:migrate
rake isodata:db:countries

…and for languages…

script/generate languages
rake db:migrate
rake isodata:db:languages

Check out the isodata project on Github.

Tags: i18n, iso, iso3166, iso639, l10n, rails, ruby

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