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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 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), or similar, even if it isn't ruby.
## Installation
Add to Gemfile:
```ruby
gem 'i18n-tasks', '~> 0.3.11'
```
i18n-tasks does not load or execute any of the application's code but performs static-only analysic.
This means you can install the gem and run it on a project without adding it to Gemfile.
## Usage
Run `i18n-tasks` to get the list of tasks with short descriptions.
```bash
$ 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
irb irb session within i18n-tasks context
See ` --help` for more information on a specific command.
```
#### Add missing keys
You can add missing values, generated from the key (for base locale) or copied from the base locale (for other locales).
To add missing values to the base locale only:
```bash
# most task accept locales as first argument. `base` and `all` are special
i18n-tasks add-missing base
# add-missing accepts a placeholder argument, with optional base_value interpolation
i18n-tasks add-missing -p 'PLEASE-TRANSLATE %{base_value}' fr
```
#### Google Translate missing keys
Translate missing values with Google Translate ([more below on the API key](#translation-config)).
```bash
i18n-tasks translate-missing
# accepts from and locales options:
i18n-tasks translate-missing --from base es fr
```
Sort the keys and write them to their respective files with `i18n-tasks normalize`.
This always happens on `i18n-tasks add-missing` and `i18n-tasks translate-missing`.
```bash
i18n-tasks normalize
```
#### Find usages
See where the keys are used with `i18n-tasks find`:
```bash
i18n-tasks find common.help
i18n-tasks find 'auth.*'
i18n-tasks find '{number,currency}.format.*'
```
![i18n-screenshot][screenshot-find]
### Find / remove unused keys
```bash
i18n-tasks unused
i18n-tasks remove-unused
```
#### Features
Relative keys (`t '.title'`) and plural keys (`key.{one,many,other,...}`) are fully supported.
Scope argument is supported, but only when it is the first keyword argument ([improvements welcome](/lib/i18n/tasks/scanners/pattern_with_scope_scanner.rb)):
```ruby
# this is supported
t :invalid, scope: [:auth, :password], attempts: 5
# but not this
t :invalid, attempts: 5, scope: [:auth, :password]
```
Unused report will detect certain dynamic key forms and not report them, e.g.:
```ruby
t 'category.' + category.key # all 'category.*' keys are considered used
t "category.#{category.key}.name" # all 'category.*.name' keys are considered used
```
Translation data storage, key usage search, and other [settings](#configuration) are compatible with Rails by default.
## Configuration
Configuration is read from `config/i18n-tasks.yml` or `config/i18n-tasks.yml.erb`.
Inspect configuration with `i18n-tasks config`.
### Locales
By default, `base_locale` is set to `en` and `locales` are inferred from the paths to data files.
You can override these in the config:
```yaml
# config/i18n-tasks.yml
base_locale: en
locales: [es, fr] # This includes base_locale by default
```
### Storage
The default data adapter supports YAML and JSON files.
```yaml
# config/i18n-tasks.yml
data:
# configure YAML / JSON serializer options
# passed directly to load / dump / parse / serialize.
yaml:
write:
# do not wrap lines at 80 characters (override default)
line_width: -1
```
#### Multiple locale files
Use `data` options to work with locale data spread over multiple files.
`data.read` accepts a list of file globs to read from per-locale:
```
# config/i18n-tasks.yml
data:
read:
# read from namespaced files, e.g. simple_form.en.yml
- 'config/locales/*.%{locale}.yml'
# read from a gem (config is parsed with ERB first, then YAML)
- "<%= %x[bundle show vagrant].chomp %>/templates/locales/%{locale}.yml"
# default
- 'config/locales/%{locale}.yml'
```
For writing to locale files i18n-tasks provides 2 options.
##### Pattern router
Pattern router organizes keys based on a list of key patterns, as in the example below:
```
data:
# pattern_router is default
router: pattern_router
# a list of {key pattern => file} routes, matched top to bottom
write:
# write models.* and views.* keys to the respective files
- ['{models,views}.*', 'config/locales/\1.%{locale}.yml']
# or, write every top-level key namespace to its own file
- ['{:}.*', 'config/locales/\1.%{locale}.yml']
# default, sugar for ['*', path]
- 'config/locales/%{locale}.yml'
```
##### Conservative router (v0.4.0+)
Conservative router keeps the keys where they are found, or infers the path from base locale.
If the key is completely new, conservative router will fall back to the pattern router behaviour.
```
data:
router: conservative_router
write:
- 'config/locales/%{locale}.yml'
```
#### Key pattern syntax
| syntax | description |
|:------------:|:----------------------------------------------------------|
| `*` | matches everything |
| `:` | matches a single key |
| `{a, b.c}` | match any in set, can use `:` and `*`, match is captured |
#### Custom adapters
If you store data somewhere but in the filesystem, e.g. in the database or mongodb, you can implement a custom adapter.
Implement [a handful of methods][adapter-example], then set `data.adapter` to the class name; the rest of the `data` config is passed to the initializer.
```yaml
# config/i18n-tasks.yml
data:
# file_system is the default adapter, you can provide a custom class name here:
adapter: file_system
```
### Usage search
Configure usage search in `config/i18n-tasks.yml`:
```yaml
# config/i18n-tasks.yml
# i18n usage search in source
search:
# search these directories (relative to your Rails.root directory, default: 'app/')
paths:
- 'app/'
- 'vendor/'
# include only files matching this glob pattern (default: blank = include all files)
include:
- '*.rb'
- '*.html.*'
- '*.text.*'
# explicitly exclude files (default: blank = exclude no files)
exclude:
- '*.js'
# you can override the default key regex pattern:
pattern: "\\bt[( ]\\s*(:?\".+?\"|:?'.+?'|:\\w+)"
```
To configure paths for relative key resolution:
```yaml
# config/i18n-tasks.yml
# directories containing relative keys
relative_roots:
# default:
- app/views
# add a custom one:
- app/views-mobile
```
It is also possible to use a custom key usage scanner by setting `search.scanner` to a class name.
See this basic [pattern scanner](/lib/i18n/tasks/scanners/pattern_scanner.rb) for reference.
### Fine-tuning
Tasks may incorrectly report framework i18n keys as missing, also some patterns may not be detected.
When all else fails, use the options below.
```yaml
# config/i18n-tasks.yml
# do not report these keys as unused
ignore_unused:
- category.*.db_name
# do not report these keys as missing (both on blank value and no key)
ignore_missing:
- devise.errors.unauthorized # ignore this key
- pagination.views.* # ignore the whole pattern
# E.g to ignore all Rails number / currency keys:
- 'number.{format, percentage.format, precision.format, human.format, currency.format}.{strip_insignificant_zeros,significant,delimiter}'
- 'time.{pm,am}'
# do not report these keys when they have the same value as the base locale version
ignore_eq_base:
all:
- common.ok
es,fr:
- common.brand
# do not report these keys ever
ignore:
- kaminari.*
```
### Google Translate
`i18n-tasks translate-missing` requires a Google Translate API key, get it at [Google API Console](https://code.google.com/apis/console).
Put the key in `GOOGLE_TRANSLATE_API_KEY` environment variable or in the config file.
```yaml
# config/i18n-tasks.yml
translation:
api_key:
```
## RSpec integration
You might want to test for missing and unused translations as part of your test suite.
This is how you can do it with rspec:
```ruby
# spec/i18n_spec.rb:
require 'spec_helper'
require 'i18n/tasks'
describe 'I18n' do
let(:i18n) { I18n::Tasks::BaseTask.new }
it 'does not have missing keys' do
count = i18n.missing_keys.count
fail "There are #{count} missing i18n keys! Run 'i18n-tasks missing' for more details." unless count.zero?
end
it 'does not have unused keys' do
count = i18n.unused_keys.count
fail "There are #{count} unused i18n keys! Run 'i18n-tasks unused' for more details." unless count.zero?
end
end
```
## XLSX
Export missing and unused data to XLSX:
```bash
i18n-tasks xlsx-report
```
## HTML
While i18n-tasks does not provide an HTML version of the report, you can add [one like this](https://gist.github.com/glebm/6887030).
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[adapter-example]: https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks/blob/master/lib/i18n/tasks/data/file_system_base.rb