Gettext does not work, but no errors!

Rails
1

Hi
I have a problem with gettext. I did some eays steps from a forum wihout
any problems:

  1. Replace Strings with _(‘balbalbal’)
  2. build po file with rake-task /po/de_DE/domain.po
  3. Edit this file
  4. build mo file with rake-task /locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/domain.mo
  5. insert “require ‘gettext/rails’” and “init_gettext ‘domain’” to
    applicationController

If I start my application it works without any error-message but the
Strings are not replaced with strings from the domian.mo file. If I
check GetText.local it is “de_DE”! So why does it not work?

I also fount out this: If I remove “require ‘gettext/rails’” from
ApplicationController the init_gettext method already works without
errors. I don’t know why.

Thanks for any help!

2

I also get exactly the same problem. Have you found any solution yet.

What do you mean by "f I remove “require ‘gettext/rails’” from

ApplicationController the init_gettext method already works without
errors."? Does this mean you have already made it working?

Thanks.

On Mar 28, 8:44 pm, Alex S. [email protected]

3

We also got the same problem on Fedora Linux 8 and RH enterprise
server 5.

However, it seems ok for Ubuntu. I tried all the fixes and ideas
available from the forums, but cannot make it working for FC8 and RH
ES5.

The problem is some like this:

  1. It works for error messages, for example, those for validations in
    model files.
  2. It does not working for all the translations in templates in app/
    views directory.
  3. There is no error message at all for rake tasks and the pot and mo
    files are generated ok.

Masao, I suggest you have a close look into this issue.

Thanks.

On Mar 28, 8:44 pm, Alex S. [email protected]

4

Hi,

I fount a solution. But at first a comment:

What do you mean by "f I remove “require ‘gettext/rails’” from

ApplicationController the init_gettext method already works without
errors."? Does this mean you have already made it working?

With no errors I mean no exceptions in error log!

So the solution was very easy: I switched from Rails 1.2.3 to 2.0.2!
Thats all! I worked with a tutorial which based on 1.2.3. In this
tutorial was also a descrition of gettext, but without any comment about
the version of gettext. I think the latest Version of gettext does not
work with some old rails version.

5

No, it seems we have different problems.

I am using Rails 2.0.2 and Ruby 1.8.6. Both are the newest versions.
Only validation error messages in models are displayed based on
locale.
This seems OS package dependent, since we do not have the problem with
Ubuntu but only for RH Linux.

Anyone can help?

Thanks,

On 3ÔÂ29ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç10ʱ24·Ö, Alex S. [email protected]