babelphish makes it simple to translate you yaml files into all the languages supported by Google Translate
detect_language does not currently supported v2 of the Google API - Google doesn’t provide the functionality. But you can easily switch between API version by calling Babelphish.set_settings({“api_key”=>“PUT YOUR KEY HERE”, “version”=>“v2”}) or Babelphish.set_settings({“api_key”=>“”, “version”=>“v1”}).
babelphish now supports version 2 of the Google API. To enable the new version you will need to get an API key from Google: code.google.com/apis/console/?pli=1#welcome
Once you have the key create a file in your home directory called .babelphish.yml The contents should look like this:
api_key: THE KEY YOU GET FROM GOOGLE GOES HERE version: v2 # Optional value specifying the default languages to translate to: #translate_tos: es,fr,jp,de
You can also set the values programmatically:
Babelphish.set_settings({"api_key"=>"", "version"=>"v2"})
Google places a 100,000 character limit per day on each API key. Once you hit the limit Google will begin returning 403 errors. (You can hit this limit really quickly.)
Translate the en.yml file into all supported languages:
babelphish -y ./my/locales/en.yml
Translate the en.yml file into all supported languages and overwrite other yml files:
babelphish -y ./my/locales/en.yml -o
Babelphish can be used to translate content programmatically within your application. Use it thus:
Translate content into a single language:
from = 'en' to = 'es' translation = Babelphish::Translator.translate('hello world', to, from)
Translate content into all supported languages at once. This will return a hash table with the locale as keys (ie ‘en’, ‘es’, etc).
translations = Babelphish::Translator.multiple_translate('hello world', Babelphish::GoogleTranslate::LANGUAGES, self.locale)
Here’s a more extensive example
# Translate title and body using Google
def translate()
translate_from_locale = 'en'
title_translations = Babelphish::Translator.multiple_translate(self.title, Babelphish::GoogleTranslate::LANGUAGES, translate_from_locale)
body_translations = Babelphish::Translator.multiple_translate(self.body, Babelphish::GoogleTranslate::LANGUAGES, translate_from_locale)
Babelphish::GoogleTranslate::LANGUAGES.each do |language|
self.content_translations.create!(:title => title_translations[language],
:body => body_translations[language],
:locale => language)
end
end
end
ya2yaml should be automatically installed when you install babelphish, but is isn’t:
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sudo gem install ya2yaml
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sudo gem install babelphish
www.justinball.com/2009/05/19/babelphish-yml-translation-made-simple/
AFRIKAANS = ‘af’ ALBANIAN = ‘sq’ AMHARIC = ‘am’ ARABIC = ‘ar’ ARMENIAN = ‘hy’ AZERBAIJANI = ‘az’ BASQUE = ‘eu’ BELARUSIAN = ‘be’ BENGALI = ‘bn’ BIHARI = ‘bh’ BULGARIAN = ‘bg’ BURMESE = ‘my’ CATALAN = ‘ca’ CHEROKEE = ‘chr’ CHINESE = ‘zh’ CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED = ‘zh-CN’ CHINESE_TRADITIONAL = ‘zh-TW’ CROATIAN = ‘hr’ CZECH = ‘cs’ DANISH = ‘da’ DHIVEHI = ‘dv’ DUTCH = ‘nl’
ENGLISH = ‘en’ ESPERANTO = ‘eo’ ESTONIAN = ‘et’ FILIPINO = ‘tl’ FINNISH = ‘fi’ FRENCH = ‘fr’ GALICIAN = ‘gl’ GEORGIAN = ‘ka’ GERMAN = ‘de’ GREEK = ‘el’ GUARANI = ‘gn’ GUJARATI = ‘gu’ HAITIAN_CREOLE = ‘ht’ HEBREW = ‘iw’ HINDI = ‘hi’ HUNGARIAN = ‘hu’ ICELANDIC = ‘is’ INDONESIAN = ‘id’ INUKTITUT = ‘iu’ ITALIAN = ‘it’ JAPANESE = ‘ja’ KANNADA = ‘kn’ KAZAKH = ‘kk’ KHMER = ‘km’ KOREAN = ‘ko’ KURDISH = ‘ku’ KYRGYZ = ‘ky’ LAOTHIAN = ‘lo’ LATVIAN = ‘lv’ LITHUANIAN = ‘lt’ MACEDONIAN = ‘mk’ MALAY = ‘ms’ MALAYALAM = ‘ml’ MALTESE = ‘mt’ MARATHI = ‘mr’ MONGOLIAN = ‘mn’ NEPALI = ‘ne’ NORWEGIAN = ‘no’ ORIYA = ‘or’ PASHTO = ‘ps’ PERSIAN = ‘fa’ POLISH = ‘pl’ PORTUGUESE = ‘pt-PT’ PUNJABI = ‘pa’ ROMANIAN = ‘ro’ RUSSIAN = ‘ru’ SANSKRIT = ‘sa’ SERBIAN = ‘sr’ SINDHI = ‘sd’ SINHALESE = ‘si’ SLOVAK = ‘sk’ SLOVENIAN = ‘sl’ SPANISH = ‘es’ SWAHILI = ‘sw’ SWEDISH = ‘sv’ TAJIK = ‘tg’ TAMIL = ‘ta’ TAGALOG = ‘tl’ TELUGU = ‘te’ THAI = ‘th’ TIBETAN = ‘bo’ TURKISH = ‘tr’ UKRAINIAN = ‘uk’ URDU = ‘ur’ UZBEK = ‘uz’ UIGHUR = ‘ug’ VIETNAMESE = ‘vi’
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