Hi folks,
While writing a section on localization for my book[0], I noticed that
there doesn’t seem to be a localization system that works out of the
box on Ruby 1.9.
The changes to get either Ruby-GetText[1] or Gibberish[2] to work were
minimal, though.
I really liked the general idea behind Gibberish, since it has a nice
Ruby interface and is very easy to configure. But it was a Rails
plugin, and needed some small modifications to work standalone.
I also wasn’t wild about using String#[] to do translation tagging, as
it seemed it’d be just as easy to get by without modifying core. I
did some other cleanup under the hood and removed the dependency on
ActiveSupport, and put up Gibberish::Simple:
I’m curious if folks find this interesting / useful enough for an
official release and further maintenance? I would be fine with just
using it as a book example, but if others find it useful beyond that,
I can document it, polish it up a bit, and push a gem.
== More Details ==
This library keeps most of the functionality Gibberish offers. In
most cases, you just need to switch:
“My String”[:tag, *args]
to look like this:
T(“My String”, :tag, *args)
After including the Gibberish::Simple module. Also, you replace any
call on Gibberish with a call to Gibberish::Simple. Some minor
features were removed, but otherwise it’s mostly the same library.
If you’re curious of what it looks like in a code sample, I coded up a
tiny Sinatra app that implements the rock paper scissors game:
You will need Sinatra 0.9.1 (from Github) and Ruby 1.9.1 to run this
code.
Please let me know what you think.
-greg
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Gregory B.
[email protected] wrote:
Hi folks,
While writing a section on localization for my book[0], I noticed that
there doesn’t seem to be a localization system that works out of the
box on Ruby 1.9.
The changes to get either Ruby-GetText[1] or Gibberish[2] to work were
minimal, though.
Whoops, always forget the links :-/
[0] http://rubybestpractices.com
[1] http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html?ruby-gettext
[2] GitHub - defunkt/gibberish: Dead simple Rails localization.
Hi Gregory,
Gregory B. wrote:
Hi folks,
While writing a section on localization for my book[0], I noticed that
there doesn’t seem to be a localization system that works out of the
box on Ruby 1.9.
The changes to get either Ruby-GetText[1] or Gibberish[2] to work were
minimal, though.
…
GitHub - practicingruby/gibberish-simple: Experiment in modifying Gibberish to work standalone in Ruby 1.9
I’m curious if folks find this interesting / useful enough for an
official release and further maintenance? I would be fine with just
using it as a book example, but if others find it useful beyond that,
I can document it, polish it up a bit, and push a gem.
I just need such a library at the moment.
Please let me know what you think.
I’ll try it and will report feedbacks on this thread.
Cheers.
Chauk-Mean.
Hi (again) Gregory,
Gregory B. wrote:
I’m curious if folks find this interesting / useful enough for an
official release and further maintenance? I would be fine with just
using it as a book example, but if others find it useful beyond that,
I can document it, polish it up a bit, and push a gem.
This is exactly what I need :
- not intrusive regarding the core classes
- simple (no dependency other than the standard yaml library)
- ruby-1.9 support
It is just perfect for me.
Go on for an official release and maintenance.
Thanks for sharing anyway.
Cheers.
Chauk-Mean.