gettext_activerecord

gettext_activerecord provides the localization for ActiveRecord-2.2 or later using Ruby-GetText-Package.

Validation messages translation
Model translation
- extract messages from models with the rake task.

Website

Requirements

Ruby 1.8.3 or later
Rubygems
locale gem
- $ gem install locale
gettext gem
- $ gem install gettext

Install

#Uninstall old gettext if exists.
(sudo/su on POSIX system)
gem uninstall gettext

#from rubyforge 
(sudo/su on POSIX system)
gem install locale
gem install gettext_activerecord

Usage

without Rails

Rakefile

require 'rubygems'

desc "Create mo files"
task :makemo do
  require 'gettext_activerecord/tools'
  GetText.create_mofiles
end

task :updatepo do
  require 'gettext_activerecord/tools'
  # Need to access DB to find Model table/column names.
  # Use config/database.yml which is the same style with rails.
  GetText.update_pofiles("sample_ar", ["topic.rb"], "sample AR 1.0.0")
end

topic.rb

class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_length_of :title, :minimum => 10
end

sample.rb

require 'gettext_activerecord'
require 'topic'

# Use config/database.yml which is the same style with rails.
config = YAML.load(IO.read("config/database.yml"))["development"]
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(config)

GetText.bindtextdomain_to(ActiveRecord, "sample_ar", :path => "locale")

GetText.set_locale "ja_JP.UTF-8"
a = Topic.new
a.title = "Foo"
a.save
puts a.errors.full_messages  #puts Japanese error message.

Then …

$ rake updatepo
$ cd po
$ mkdir ja
$ msginit -l ja_JP.UTF-8 -i sample_ar.pot -o ja/sample_ar.po
$ Edit ja/sample_ar.po
$ cd ../../
$ rake makemo
$ ruby sample.rb

with Rails

See gettext_rails [github.com/mutoh/gettext_rails/tree/master]

Support matrix

gettext_activerecord-2.1.0 - rails-2.3.2,2.3.3,2.3.4
gettext_activerecord-2.0.2 - rails-2.3.2
gettext_activerecord-2.0.1 - rails-2.3.2
gettext_activerecord-2.0.0 - rails-2.3.2

License

This program is licenced under the same licence as Ruby(See COPYING) or LGPL(Lesser General Public License: www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt).

Translators

Bosnian(bs) - Sanjin Sehic <saserr at gmail.com>
Bulgarian(bg) - Sava Chankov <sava.chankov at gmail.com>
Catalan(ca) - Ramon Salvadó <rsalvado at gnuine.com>
Chinese(Simplified)(zh_CN)
- Yang Bob <bob.yang.dev at gmail.com> (current)
- Yingfeng <blogyingfeng at gmail.com>
Chinese(Traditional)(zh_TW)
- Yang Bob <bob.yang.dev at gmail.com> (current)
- LIN CHUNG-YI <xmarsh at gmail.com>
Croatian(hr) - Sanjin Sehic <saserr at gmail.com>
Czech(cs) - Karel Miarka <kajism at yahoo.com>
Dutch(nl) - Bart ten Brinke <info at retrosync.com> (current)
```
Menno Jonkers <ruby-gettext at jonkers.com>
```
Esperanto(eo) - Malte Milatz <malte at gmx-topmail.de>
Estonian(et) - Erkki Eilonen <erkki at itech.ee>
French(fr)
- Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart at gmail.com> (current)
- David Sulc <davidsulc at gmail.com>
- David Sulc <davidsulc at gmail.com>
- Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com>
German(de)
- Patrick Lenz <patrick at limited-overload.de> (current)
- Detlef Reichl <detlef.reichl at gmx.org>
- Sven Herzberg <herzi at abi02.de>
- Sascha Ebach <se at digitale-wertschoepfung.de>
Greek(el) - Vassilis Rizopoulos <damphyr at gmx.net>
Hungarian(hu) - Tamás Tompa <tompata at gmail.com>
Italian(it)
- Marco Lazzeri <marco.lazzeri at gmail.com>
- Gabriele Renzi <surrender_it at yahoo.it>
Japanese(ja) - Masao Mutoh <mutomasa at gmail.com>
Korean(ko) - Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad at gmail.com>
Latvian(lv) - Aivars Akots <aivars.akots at gmail.com>
Norwegian(nb) - Runar Ingebrigtsen <runar at mopo.no>
Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR)
- Antonio S. de A. Terceiro <terceiro at softwarelivre.org> (current)
- Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa at gmail.com>
Russian(ru) - Yuri Kozlov <kozlov.y at gmail.com>
Serbian(sr) - Slobodan Paunović“ <slobodan.paunovic at gmail.com>
Spanish(es)
- David Espada <davinci at escomposlinux.org> (current)
- David Moreno Garza <damog at damog.net>
Ukrainian(ua) - Alex Rootoff <rootoff at pisem.net>
Vietnamese(vi) - Ngoc Dao Thanh <ngocdaothanh at gmail.com>

Status of translations

Bosnian(bs) - 1.90.0 (old)
Bulgarian(bg) - 2.0.0
Catalan(ca) - 2.0.0
Croatian(hr) - 1.90.0 (old)
Chinese(zh_CN) - 2.0.0
Chinese(zh_TW) - 2.0.0
Czech(cs) - 1.9.0 (old)
Dutch(nl) - 2.0.2
English(default) - 1.90.0 (old)
Esperanto(eo) - 2.0.0
Estonian(et) - 2.0.0
French(fr) - 2.0.0
German(de) - 2.0.0
Greek(el) - 2.0.0
Hungarian(hu) - 2.0.0
Italian(it) - 1.6.0 (old)
Japanese(ja) - 2.1.0
Korean(ko) - 1.9.0 (old)
Latvian(lv) - 2.0.0
Norwegian(nb) - 2.0.0
Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 2.0.0
Russian(ru) - 2.0.0
Serbian(sr) - 1.91.0 (old)
Spanish(es) - 2.0.0
Ukrainian(ua) - 2.0.0
Vietnamese(vi) - 2.0.0

Maintainer

Masao Mutoh <mutomasa at gmail.com>