Recently I was talking (well, it was a chat) with a friend about the content of my blog which is primarily in Spanish and he was asking if there is a plugin or something to translate the content to English. I got interested in finding a way to implement a multilanguage blog, the easiest way in the technical side would have been to create another blog in a subdomain or other domain and start doing it in English but that implied maintaining 2 separate sites and I want a single database and upload images or files just to one location.
Since this blog is powered by Mephisto the solution had to be written in ruby and one of the benefits or the Ruby language is that is really easy to implement solutions to most of the things you want or need and if you add to that the community of Rails developers you get the equivalent of the support that Wordpress has, in the sense that almost everything you need in a blog is already done or is being developed by someone who has the same need as you.
Doing a search in the ubiquitous search engine I found the solution to my problem in webtypes, this plugin for Mephisto does exactly what I want and it looks like its easy to implement/add to a blog.
The obvious drawback is that I will have to write each post twice, but I rather this than doing an automated translation with a web service.
As soon as I install this I will post a mini-howto to.
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