From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-03-02T12:17:41+09:00
Subject: Requesting feedback on Gibberish::Simple, a tiny Ruby 1.9 	localization lib

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:

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.

== 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:
http://github.com/sandal/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