# Automatically updating the localization dictionaries

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-updating-the-localization-dictionaries/154030>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 24, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-updating-the-localization-dictionaries/154030 "2008-11-24T18:41:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Karl\_Eklund](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b77776/32.png) [@Karl\_Eklund](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Karl_Eklund)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-updating-the-localization-dictionaries/154030/1 "2008-11-24T18:41:03Z")

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With gettext-rails, I could do “rake updatepo” to automatically scan  
my views and controllers for localizable messages and update my .po  
files. As gettext-rails stopped working with Rails 2.2, I decided to  
switch to the built-in I18n system, but I’m missing that  
functionality. Is there some similar method now?