# Ruby-gettext valitation?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gettext-valitation/122750>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 11, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gettext-valitation/122750 "2007-12-11T20:07:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![kilo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/0ea827/32.png) [@kilo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kilo)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gettext-valitation/122750/1 "2007-12-11T20:07:32Z")

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How to enable a model validation error translation in ruby-gettext?

Translated po files are in ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/… somewhere,  
should I copy a rails.po to my projekt po-folder or what?

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**Author:** ![kilo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/0ea827/32.png) [@kilo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kilo)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gettext-valitation/122750/2 "2007-12-11T21:02:34Z")

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Ki Lo wrote:

> How to enable a model validation error translation in ruby-gettext?
> 
> Translated po files are in ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/… somewhere,  
> should I copy a rails.po to my projekt po-folder or what?

Your question is not too clear. This page might help; it covers  
translations of validation error messages in the Models section:

[http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-rails.html](http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-rails.html)

Stephan