From: Patrick Gundlach <clr3.10.randomuser@...>
Date: 2004-11-21T20:13:08+09:00
Subject: gettext and require

Dear Rubyists,

I use ruby gettext (very nice, though!) and have split up my code in
several files, that I include with require. But in the new files, the
translation effect is lost.


--------------------------------------------------
require 'gettext'
include GetText

require 'beh'

class A
  def initialize
    bindtextdomain("hello","locale","fr")
  end
  def pr
    puts _("Hello World")
  end
end


class B
  def pr
    puts _("Hello World")
  end
end

a=A.new
a.pr
b=B.new
b.pr
--------------------------------------------------
beh.rb:
#empty
--------------------------------------------------


this is OK. Both Hello World get translated. But if I move the code
"class B .... end" to the other file, only the first Hello World gets
translated.  I have to put the line with bindtextdomain somewhere in
the second file to get gettext working correctly. I think that this
has something to do with ruby discarding local stuff when using
require.


I need to set the lang part in the file, because I have a web
application that should be able to switch language based on cookies.

Question: how should I set this up correctly?


Patrick