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I have a feeling this will help some of y’all if you are getting the following error:

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I get this error if I try to login on my development environment because localhost:3000 just won’t cut it for Yahoo’s OpenID security policy. If I run from a production URL on port 80, say http://myutil.com/ then signin works (though I haven’t gotten Simple Registration Attribute Exchange working with Yahoo).

Yahoo! Security Policies Yahoo! will only support Relying Parties running on webservers with real hostnames (IP addresses are not supported) running on standard ports (Port 80 for HTTP and Port 443 for HTTPS).

Hope this saves ya some time!

I wanted to prototype my Gibberish translations before we have an actual translator. I grabbed gibberish_translate and started copying and pasting from Google Language Tools.

After five minutes of this, I thought there has got to be a better way. I googled for an API to the Google tools, and though I found none, I did find a scraping Ruby API called rtranslate. So…

gem install googletranslate

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  require 'rtranslate'
  def index
     # ...Mark's entire index method goes here unchanged
    if params[:filter] == "untranslated"
      count=0
      @paginated_keys.each do |key|  
        if ! @translated_messages[key]
          @translated_messages[key] = { 
          :to => Translate.t(@en_messages[key], Language::ENGLISH, session[:translation_locale] ),
          :from => @en_messages[key]
          }
        end
        break if (count += 1) == per_page
        sleep 1 # Let's be nice to google
      end
    end
  end
 # end of index from gibberish_translate's translations_controller.rb

And now Google does the work for me with the click of a mouse!

Note I did make some other changes to Mark’s code. There was a bug in translations_controller.rb in that it lost your current local when saving changes. To fix this I changed the set_translation_locale to use the session of there is no paramater:

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  def set_translation_locale
    session[:translation_locale] = params[:translation_locale] if params[:translation_locale]
    session[:translation_locale] = Gibberish.languages.first if Gibberish.languages if ! session[:translation_locale]
  end

I also made some changes to gibberish_translate’s extractor.rb to handle Gibberish strings with default keys ("foo"[] is a valid Gibberish way of saying "foo"[:foo]):

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    def message_pattern(start_token, end_token)
      /#{start_token}((?:[^#{end_token}](?:\\#{end_token})?)+)#{end_token}\[:*([a-z_]*)[,\]]/m
    end

    def add_messages(contents, start_token, end_token)
      contents.scan(message_pattern(start_token, end_token)).each do |text, key|
        key = text.tr('[  ]', '_').downcase if ( key == '' )
        add_message(key, remove_quotes(text, end_token))
      end
    end

The final tweaks I made was to make the find system call more portable (no -regex on OpenBSD) and also have it search for strings in my gibberish_rails plugin:

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    def files_with_messages
      `find #{dirs_to_search.join(" ")} -type f '(' -name '*rb' -or -name '*.ml' ')'`.split.map(&:chomp)
    end

    def dirs_to_search
      %w(app config lib vendor/plugins/gibberish_rails).map { |dir| "#{RAILS_ROOT}/#{dir}" }
    end

Peace!

Portions of the above code Copyright© 2007 Peter Marklund

With migrating from Rails 1 to Rails 2, I have tried to simplify. When I wanted to prototype a multilingual Rails application I was very intrigued by Gibberish and it’s simplicity.

As all Gibberish does is translate strings and all this plugin attempts to do is translate srings in Rails. This plugin is in a very early prototype stage but I expect it to be useful none the less.

If you want full localization of dates, numbers, the world etc. check out some of the other more mature localization plugins.

If you are trying to localize your Rails strings with Gibberish, then this plugin is for you.

When I set out I didn’t even expect to make a plugin, just write some simple ruby in my project. However, it turns out there is a reason for the bloat in localization plugins…rails was never designed to be localized and has some quirks that lead to the necessity of overriding large core rails methods. The rails core team is obviously aware the problem and are working on a solution with ticket 9726. I’m hoping Rails ticket 9726 will make it to edge and then I’ll be able to simplify this plugin.

Without further adieu, I give you gibberish_rails.

Here is a link to the RDoc.

Quickie instructions (includes install for Gibberish).

./script/plugin install svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/gibberish
./script/plugin install http://svn.myutil.com/projects/plugins/gibberish_rails/

Please read the README in it’s entirety before using.

Now you must translate your strings. I recommend using gibberish_translate. My next article will be on automatic prototyping translations with gibberish_translate and Google Language Tools.

OpenID makes sense. Dr. Nick’s multi-OpenIDs per user example app makes even more sense.

In the middle of integrating it into my project, gem-1.0.1 came out and broke ruby-openid-1.1.4. Dr. Nick’s great example no longer worked!

A little digging and I found Dr. Nick’s example uses the standard open_id_authentication. That has a patch to work on ruby-openid-2.0.2 and rails 2 which can be found here.

So in a nutshell, I grabbed openidauth_multiopenid-0.3.2 from Dr. Nick, removed a bunch of stuff from vendor plugins. Updated Rakefile, config/boot.rb, and config/environment.rb for rails 2.0.2. Patched vendor/plugins/open_id_authentication for ruby-openid-2.0.2. Regenerated db/migration/002_add_open_id_authentication_tables.rb. And installed ruby-openid-2.0.2 as a system gem.

As a little code is worth more than a thousand words, here is Dr. Nick’s example application fully ported to rails 2.0.2 in ZIP and TAR.gz.

For my port of Dr. Nick’s example above to work, you will need rails-2.0.2 and ruby-openid-2.0.2 installed as a gems.

http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/07/26/sample-app-rails-multiple-openids-per-user/
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10604
http://openidenabled.com/ruby-openid/
http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/open_id_authentication/
http://openid.net/