From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>
Date: 2005-03-08T03:42:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Using (x)gettext with Ruby files

Hi,

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:52:53 +0900, Sascha Ebach
<se@digitale-wertschoepfung.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to localize some Ruby files and was trying to use xgettext. It
> doesn't support Ruby as a language. All I want to do though is extract
> everything within _("") and _(''). Are there any recommendations on how
> to use gettext / xgettext with Ruby files? When I run xgettext through
> my files I get messages like these:
> 
> xgettext: warning: file `helpers/application_helper.rb' extension `rb'
> is unknown; will try C
> 
> and
> 
> controllers/page_controller.rb:39: warning: unterminated character constant
> 
> The second message comes from a comment which includes a '
> 
> # ... don't ...
> 
> Obviously it nows nothing about Ruby.
> 
> I also found rgettext, but it's functionality is very limited.
> 
> How do you extract your strings from your Ruby files?
> 

In Alexandria (alexandria.rubyforge.org) I use rgettext from
Ruby-GetText package, as follow:

rgettext <ruby_files> -o <pot_file>

And it works perfectly, since the beginning.  It supports splitted
strings with + or \.

HTH,

Laurent