# Need help with gettext

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-with-gettext/61921>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 29, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-with-gettext/61921 "2006-05-29T19:59:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-with-gettext/61921/1 "2006-05-29T19:59:51Z")

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I’m following the wiki instructions for using gettext:  
[http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/105](http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/105)

I run ‘rake updatepo’ and it creates a myapp.pot file in rails\_root/po.  
I  
then create a sub-directory (rails\_root/po/en\_GB) and copy a translated  
myapp.pot into it. When I run ‘rake makemo’ it doesn’t create a ‘locale’  
folder like I expect it to. The task doesn’t produce any errors either

can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong?  
alan

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**Author:** ![orotone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@orotone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/orotone)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-with-gettext/61921/2 "2008-03-24T16:01:26Z")

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Alan B. wrote:

> I’m following the wiki instructions for using gettext:  
> [Peak Obsession](http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/105)
> 
> I run ‘rake updatepo’ and it creates a myapp.pot file in rails\_root/po.  
> I  
> then create a sub-directory (rails\_root/po/en\_GB) and copy a translated  
> myapp.pot into it. When I run ‘rake makemo’ it doesn’t create a ‘locale’  
> folder like I expect it to. The task doesn’t produce any errors either
> 
> can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong?  
> alan

Did you rename the translated file to “.po”? I believe the makemo task  
looks for .po files, so if you left the .pot extension on by mistake, it  
might get skipped.

Hope this helps.