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| title: Internationalization made easier with static analysis | |
| date: "2014-02-27 09:41 CET" | |
| tags: i18n, ruby | |
| published: true | |
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| [i18n-tasks][i18n-tasks] finds and manages missing and unused translations in your application. | |
| The default approach to locale data management with gems such as [i18n][i18n-gem] is flawed. | |
| If you use a key that does not exist, this will only blow up at runtime. Keys left over from removed code accumulate | |
| in the resource files and introduce unnecessary overhead on the translators. Translation files can quickly turn to disarray. | |
| i18n-tasks improves this by using static analysis. It scans calls such as `I18n.t('some.key')` and provides reports on key usage, missing, and unused keys. | |
| It can also can pre-fill missing keys, including from Google Translate, and it can remove unused keys as well. | |
| i18n-tasks can be used with any project using [i18n][i18n-gem] (default in Rails). | |
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| It can make translation easier in many ways: | |
| ~~~ | |
| $ i18n-tasks | |
| Usage: i18n-tasks <command> [options] | |
| -v, --version Print the version | |
| -h, --help Display this help message. | |
| Available commands: | |
| missing show missing translations | |
| unused show unused translations | |
| translate-missing translate missing keys with Google Translate | |
| add-missing add missing keys to the locales | |
| find show where the keys are used in the code | |
| normalize normalize translation data: sort and move to the right files | |
| remove-unused remove unused keys | |
| config display i18n-tasks configuration | |
| xlsx-report save missing and unused translations to an Excel file | |
| See `<command> --help` for more information on a specific command. | |
| ~~~ | |
| There are lots of settings and you can use this on non-ruby codebases. | |
| Reports come rendered in colourful full-resolution [terminal tables](https://github.com/visionmedia/terminal-table): | |
| <a href="https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks" target="_blank"><img width="539" height="331" src="https://i.imgur.com/XZBd8l7.png" style="max-width:100%;"></a> | |
| ~~~ | |
| $ i18n-tasks usages 'activities.*' | |
| ~~~ | |
| <a href="https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks" target="_blank"><img width="655" height="193" src="https://i.imgur.com/VxBrSfY.png" alt="i18n-screenshot" title="i18n-tasks find output screenshot" style="max-width:100%;"></a> | |
| ### See also | |
| * [i18n-tasks on GitHub](https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks). | |
| * [HackerNews thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312390). | |
| [i18n-tasks]: https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks "glebm/i18n-tasks on Github" | |
| [i18n-gem]: https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n "svenfuchs/i18n on Github" |