Introduction

LesliBabel is the official translation management engine for the Lesli Framework.

It organizes application text and helps teams maintain, synchronize, and deploy translations across Lesli engines.

Features

• Translation modules and buckets
• Centralized label management
• Language-specific translation values
• Synchronization of source labels
• Translation deployment across Lesli applications

Try LesliBabel

• Try the online demo
• Run the Docker demo

Quick Start

Requirements

• A Rails application with Lesli
• SQLite by default, or PostgreSQL when preferred by the host application

Install LesliBabel

Add the engine to the host Rails application and prepare its database:

bundle add lesli_babel
bin/rails lesli:db:prepare

Mount the engine

Applications using Lesli's standard router mount LesliBabel automatically at /babel:

# config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
    Lesli::Router.mount(self)
end

If the application does not use the standard Lesli router, mount the engine directly:

# config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
    mount LesliBabel::Engine => "/babel"
end

Start Rails and visit http://127.0.0.1:3000/babel:

bin/rails server

Development

Clone LesliBabel into the host application's engines directory:

cd RailsApp
mkdir -p engines
git clone https://github.com/LesliTech/LesliBabel.git engines/LesliBabel

Reference the local engine from the host application's Gemfile:

gem "lesli_babel", path: "engines/LesliBabel"

Install dependencies, prepare the host database, and start Rails:

bundle install
bin/rails lesli:db:prepare
bin/rails server

Tests

From a complete Lesli development workspace, run the engine test suite from the LesliBabel directory:

cd engines/LesliBabel
bin/rails test

Documentation

• Lesli website
• Documentation
• Release notes
• Issue tracker
• Source code

Community

• X: @LesliTech
• [email protected]
• https://www.lesli.tech

License

Copyright (c) 2026, Lesli Technologies, S. A.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

The complete license text is available in the license file.

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