Forum: Rails I18n Installation workaround for i18n gem 0.3.5 on rails 2.3.4 not working

I am using the installation description on

http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n

where I have downloaded the gem into vendor/plugins/i18 and added the
following lines, as suggested, to an intitializer (i18n.rb):

def reload_i18n!
  raise "Move to i18n version 0.2.0 or greater" if Rails.version >
"2.3.4"
  $:.grep(/i18n/).each { |path| $:.delete(path) }
  I18n::Backend.send :remove_const, "Simple"
  $: << Rails.root.join('vendor', 'plugins', 'i18n', 'lib').to_s
end
reload_i18n!

Then in the console I18n.t :hello would returns "Translation missing"

Unfortunately, due to other incompatibilities (Unicorn), I don't want
to upgrade to rails 2.3.5.

P.S. Working on a plugin that offers a migration path from Globalize1
apps to I18n+Globalize2

Below I copied the installation instructions from 
http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n

It does not work with either version of the i18n gem.

Any help to get the i18n gem work on rails 2.3.4 is highly
appreciated.

Kind regards,

Juergen


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Installation on Rails < 2.3.5 (deprecated)
Up to version 2.3.4 Rails will not accept i18n gems > 0.1.3. There is
an unpacked
gem inside of active_support/lib/vendor which gets loaded unless gem
‘i18n’, ‘~> 0.1.3’.
This requirement is relaxed in 6da03653

The new i18n gem can be loaded from vendor/plugins like this:

def reload_i18n! raise “Move to i18n version 0.2.0 or greater” if
Rails.version > “2.3.4” $:.grep(/i18n/).each { |path|
$:.delete(path) } I18n::Backend.send :remove_const, “Simple” $: <<
Rails.root.join(‘vendor’, ‘plugins’, ‘i18n’, ‘lib’).to_s end
Then you can `reload_i18n!` inside an i18n initializer.
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Juergen,

I'm not sure how this has made it into the readme, but ... it might be 
easier for you to just patch Rails here. You could just freeze Rails to 
vendor/rails and apply some patch that changes these lines:

http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v2.3.4/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb#L23-28

to match these:

http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v2.3.5/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb#L23-28

After that Rails should pick up whatever I18n gem version you've 
installed as long as it's >= 0.1.3

Hi Sven,

thanks for your quick reply. That is an option I had considered, but
was way too overconfident that the published code must have worked.

Anyway, all is good now, thanks again.

Kind regards,
Juergen