# Requesting feedback on Gibberish::Simple, a tiny Ruby 1.9 localization lib **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/requesting-feedback-on-gibberish-simple-a-tiny-ruby-1-9-localization-lib/161753 "2009-03-02T04:19:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/requesting-feedback-on-gibberish-simple-a-tiny-ruby-1-9-localization-lib/161753/1 "2009-03-02T04:19:14Z")
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: > **[GitHub - practicingruby/gibberish-simple: Experiment in modifying Gibberish...](https://github.com/practicingruby/gibberish-simple)** > > Experiment in modifying Gibberish to work standalone in Ruby 1.9 - 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. == 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: > > > //github.com/practicingruby/gibberish-simple/tree/223100a156432420400762805330ebe7e3aa346a/examples/rps 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 ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/requesting-feedback-on-gibberish-simple-a-tiny-ruby-1-9-localization-lib/161753/2 "2009-03-02T04:20:24Z")
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Gregory B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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](http://rubybestpractices.com) [1] [http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html?ruby-gettext](http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html?ruby-gettext) [2] [GitHub - defunkt/gibberish: Dead simple Rails localization.](http://github.com/defunkt/gibberish/tree/master) ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/requesting-feedback-on-gibberish-simple-a-tiny-ruby-1-9-localization-lib/161753/3 "2009-03-02T09:59:37Z")
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](http://github.com/sandal/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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/requesting-feedback-on-gibberish-simple-a-tiny-ruby-1-9-localization-lib/161753/4 "2009-03-02T21:33:29Z")
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.