In my experience with Rails 2.3, you need to add your I18n*.*load_path. Here's my creaky old example:
https://github.com/kete/kete_gets_trollied/blob/master/rails/init.rb#L13 On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Dave Aronson < [email protected]> wrote: > I need a pinch of help on internationalizing a gem. (Google Search > thinks I want help on an internationalization gem, not the same > thing.) > > The question is, what is the accepted standard way to include > $LANGUAGE.yml files in a gem, and get I18n to acknowledge it? > > From looking at a few other gems I'm using, it looks like the usual > way is to put it in lib/$GEMNAME/locale/$LANGUAGE.yml, or possibly > config/locales (plural despite the other being singular, go fig). > Either way, though, I don't see how it then gets picked up by I18n. > (I've tried just putting it there and neither seems to work.) I > could, in lib/$GEMNAME.rb or some such, add it to I18n.load_path. > However, that seems rather brute-force, and like the kind of thing > that there's probably already a convention for getting it done > automagically, at least for Rails apps if not Ruby. > > Or maybe I'm going about the whole setup the wrong way. Gemfile has: > > gem '$GEMNAME', :git => 'davearonson/$GEMNAME', :branch => > 'add-missing-translations' > > (since I'm doing this in a Github-based fork of someone else's > existing gem) and I've done: > > bundle config local.$GEMNAME ~/path/to/project/$GEMNAME/ > > from the command line, and I'm doing this work in that directory. The > Rails app itself is in a *parallel* directory, > ~/path/to/project/$RAILSAPP. The other gems are down under vendor > (bundle install --path vendor); would it work better if I put this one > down there with them? Putting garbage in lib/$GEMNAME.rb does make > Rails barf, so I know Rails is picking up the gem from the right > place. Did I maybe miss some step? > > (And before someone says "well you shouldn't be using a variable > there, put the actual name", I'm just using $GEMNAME as a placeholder > in this message; for real, I did actually use the real gem name.) > > Thanks, > Dave > > -- > Dave Aronson, the T. Rex of Codosaurus LLC, > secret-cleared freelance software developer > taking contracts in or near NoVa or remote. > See information at http://www.Codosaur.us/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAHxKQig9WxwrmhwOuR916ukPPPqfA8gTeqa43n8qm3L0A4_GaA%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAFMw9LRu13GOaHbubHxjgtP7OpTcjz5eh71tz527gE0gWtx04g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
