Mobility does a lot of different things under the hood, many of which may not be immediately obvious or easy to understand. This wiki attempts to offer a bit more detail than the readme on these different things, in a format that is slightly more readable than the API documentation.

One of the main points of confusion is about the whole concept of a "backend", what the different backends are, their relative strengths and weaknesses, and how each should be used. In the sections below, we introduce the idea of a backend in detail and explain each of the backends Mobility provides out-of-the-box.

(If you are coming from Globalize, you may want to skip to the Migrating from Globalize section.)

• Introduction to Mobility Backends
• Backends:
  • KeyValue Backend (default)
  • Table Backend (Globalize-like)
  • Column Backend (Traco-like)
  • Postgres Backends (Column Attribute)
  • Container Backend (Postgres only)
• Other topics
  • Using Mobility with Forms
  • Migrating from Globalize
  • Integrating with Rails Action Text
• Tutorials
  • Polyglot content in a rails app
  • Translating with Mobility
  • JSONify your Ruby Translations
  • Storing Rails translations in database with Mobility
  • How to migrate from KeyValue to Container backend