i18n-verify

This is a set of tools that make your life easier if you have lots of translations in a Rails project.

Installation

To use the utils in Rails 2.x, add to your environment.rb:

config.gem "i18n-verify"

If using Rails 3.x, add to your Gemfile (perhaps in the :development group)

gem "i18n-verify"

and run 'bundle install'.

Usage

i18n-verify is a set of rake tasks:

• rake i18n:find_key for finding keys
• rake i18n:is_complete for checking if translations are complete
• rake i18n:duplicates for finding keys with more than one translation for any given locale
• rake i18n:spell for checking translation misspellings

All of them will automatically pick up translation files configured for i18n (both yml and rb).

i18n:find_key

It looks for keys that match regexp.

Syntax:

rake i18n:find_key[regexp,group_by_filename]

Beware with regexp: escape your period ('.') characters. Output format is defined by group_by_filename.

Examples:

• rake i18n:find_key[models]
• rake i18n:find_key[\.models\.attributes,true]

i18n:is_complete

It checks pairs of locales for keys that are defined in one but not in the other.

Syntax:

rake i18n:is_complete [locales=<list>]

locales defaults to all and should be a comma separated list with no spaces.

Examples:

• rake i18n:is_complete
• rake i18n:is_complete locales=en,fr,es

i18n:duplicates

It checks for keys that appear more than once in the translations for any given locale. This is a nasty mistake because you can never be sure which one loads last thus becoming 'the' one in your app.

rake i18n:duplicates [locales=<list>]

locales defaults to all and should be a comma separated list with no spaces.

Examples:

• rake i18n:duplicates
• rake i18n:duplicates locales=en

i18n:spell

It checks for translation misspellings.

rake i18n:spell [locales=<list>]

locales defaults to all and should be a comma separated list with no spaces.

Please note that spelling requires aspell to be installed with all the dictionaries spelling is requested for.

Examples:

• rake i18n:spell
• rake i18n:spell locales=en,fr

To do

• Write tests (tests for rake tasks, that is!)
• More intelligent handling of spelling errors with a dictionary for accepted exceptions
• ...

Contributing to i18n-verify

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 fastcatch. See the LICENSE file for further details.