Install

• maybe you need first: *gem sources -a http://gems.github.com`
• gem install kdegettext for your standard ruby version
• gem1.9 install kdegettext for other ruby versions (command may be slightly differ on your ruby installation)

Acknowledgments

• Masao Mutoh ( author of gettext package for ruby)
  • How-To write a parser: http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-poparser.html
• Richard Dale ( some helpful links, author of korundum/qtruby package )
• the author of that piece of code found on http://www.koders.com/ruby/fidA7A93BC839C40D00497E6BB33479BAC9430FE50C.aspx?s="Chris+Wanstrath"#L20

Bugs

• in ruby1.8 the hash (TargetList) is not sorted -> output in po is not sorted for line numbers
• IMPORTANT!: This program might work only in a login console (su - user) and/or with ruby v1.9

Dependencies

• should me installed automatically via gem
• otherwise manual installation via
  • ruby 1.8: gem install locale gettext ruby_parser sexp_processor
  • ruby 1.9: gem1.9 install locale gettext ruby_parser sexp_processor

Usage

• kdegettext.rb file_1.rb [file2_rb, ...]
• with other ruby version: ruby1.9 /usr/bin/kgettext.rb file_1.rb [file2_rb, ...]