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¶ ↑

• homepage

• on rubyforge

• on github

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-2.3.2,2.3.3,2.3.4,2.3.5

• 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

Tested Ruby version:¶ ↑

• locale_rails-2.0.6 - 1.8.7-p249, 1.9.1-p378

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).

• Copyright © 2001-2009 Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highwhay.ne.jp>

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(uk) - 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(uk) - 2.0.0

• Vietnamese(vi) - 2.0.0

Maintainer¶ ↑

Masao Mutoh <mutomasa at gmail.com>