Honyaku - OpenAI powered rails translations
Honyaku recently featured in Ruby Weekly #740 is a tool built with LLM-powered tools (Cursor and Claude Sonnet 3.5) to automatically translate Rails locale files.
While automated translation isn’t revolutionary on its own, Honyaku’s business impact is striking:
Created because it replaced a $34K/year SaaS contract and streamlined our deploy process.
This case perfectly illustrates the power of focused software development: building a targeted solution to a specific problem can drastically cut costs.
It’s fascinating how this practical approach often delivers better, more efficient results than using off-the-shelf, expensive services.
From my experience, this problem-first mindset typically leads to solutions that are both simpler and more economical.