> Can anyone recommend to me where to store the text of my GUI while I

> work with the software developers? I know tthat the best practice is

> separate the text from the code but I do not know what tool to use.

> My ideal would be a wiki as I can edit through my web browser but I

> do not know how to encode the link between the text and the GUI

> other than by manually copying and pasting. I also thought of using

> DabbleDB as web-accessible databast but cannot figure out how to

> automate the download from database to code base,

>

> I feel like there should be an obvious answer but I am struggling to

> find it. If it helps, the code is in Ruby on RAILS.

Hi Mohammed,
You should ask your developers how they are storing the text. If they

say it's all included in the erb/haml templates then you might have a

problem (you don't mention language translations so this may well be

the case). If they're not using it already, you should encourage them

to look at the internationalization support in rails 2.2+ and get them

to move the strings from the templates into localization files (they

go in config/locales). So you'll probably have just one file there to

start with (en.yml, for the english translation). Learn a little about

YAML and the very basics of Subversion and edit these files yourself.
Tom