From: Sharon Rosner Date: 2008-01-14T16:10:32+09:00 Subject: Re: ANN: Babel 0.1.1 Released On Jan 13, 11:58 pm, Stefan Rusterholz wrote: > Thanks for writing that gem. However installing it via gem install babel > doesn't work properly. It installs a babel gem"babel (0.1.4)" (as listed > by gem list), which has no translate method, but a lot of random stuff. > Maybe a name conflict? Yes, there's a name conflict with an existing gem. I've renamed mine, so you now you'll need to do: sudo gem install rbabel And also: require 'rbabel' "hello".translate(:en, :fr) Also new is a command line tool for translation: cat english.txt | rbabel en:fr > french.txt The docs are updated: http://babel.rubyforge.org/