I was having a lot of trouble with
gettext in Ruby, mostly due to lacking
documentation. Here are some useful things I figured out while writing TTime. I
ended up having a single gettext_settings.rb, included from every file which
uses gettext. Here it is (with some extra notes)
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| #!/usr/bin/ruby
begin
require 'gettext'
require 'pathname'
include GetText
# This fixes a swarm of problems on Windows
GetText.locale.charset = "UTF-8"
# Ruby's gettext acts in a sane
# method - add a path to the set of paths
# scanned.
locale_in_data_path = Pathname.new($0).dirname + \
"../data/locale/%{locale}/LC_MESSAGES/%{name}.mo"
add_default_locale_path(locale_in_data_path.to_s)
bound_text_domain = bindtextdomain("ttime")
# For Glade, however, it only seems to
# be possible to specify one path at a
# time. Fortunately, gettext already
# found it for us.
my_current_mo = bound_text_domain.entries[0].current_mo
if my_current_mo
ENV["GETTEXT_PATH"] = my_current_mo.filename.gsub(
/locale\/[^\/]+\/LC_MESSAGES.*/,
"locale/")
end
rescue LoadError
def _ s #:nodoc:
# No gettext? No problem.
s
end
end
|
One note for context: I use
setup.rb (and ruby-pkg-tools) to
package TTime. So my localizations go in data/locale.