i18n-hygiene

Provides a configurable rake task to help maintain your translations.

Over the lifetime of a project there tends to be a lot of churn in the translation files. Contexts and meanings will change, features will be added and removed. You'll find that soon enough, translations fall out of use, mistakes by developers or translators will creep in. The longer this goes on, the harder it is to keep them neat and tidy.

This tool is intended to be used as part of your continuous integration pipeline to keep your translations healthy and prevent issues from ever making it to production.

Include the gem in your gemfile and bundle:

gem 'i18n-hygiene'

Create a rake task with the desired configuration. For example, this will create a rake task called i18n:hygiene:

namespace :i18n do
  I18n::Hygiene::RakeTask.new do |config|
    config.directories = ["app", "lib"]
  end
end

You can then run the rake task with:

bundle exec rake i18n:hygiene

You could also create separate rake tasks with different names and configurations, this may be useful if you are in the middle of rolling out a new locale:

namespace :i18n do
  I18n::Hygiene::RakeTask.new(:hygiene_live) do |config|
    config.locales = [:fr]
  end

  I18n::Hygiene::RakeTask.new(:hygiene_wip) do |config|
    config.locales = [:es]
  end
end

Which could be run like:

bundle exec rake i18n:hygiene_live
bundle exec rake i18n:hygiene_wip

Example using all configuration options:

I18n::Hygiene::RakeTask.new do |config|
  config.concurrency = 16
  config.directories = ["app", "lib"]
  config.exclude_files = ["README.md"]
  config.file_extensions = ["rb", "jsx"]
  config.primary_locale = :en
  config.locales = [:ja, :kr]
  config.exclude_keys = [
    "my.dynamically.used.key",
    "another.dynamically.used.key"
  ]
  config.exclude_scopes = [
    "activerecord",
    "countries"
  ]
end

Using this gem without Rails is possible, but you'll need to load the translations manually first.

namespace :i18n do
  require 'i18n'
  require 'i18n/hygiene'

  I18n.load_path = Dir["locales/*.yml"]
  I18n.backend.load_translations

  I18n::Hygiene::RakeTask.new(:hygiene_live) do |config|
    config.directories = ["src"]
    config.locales = [:fr]
  end
end

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