Translate

Translate provides an easy to translate word or expression into another, using wordreference. This website does’nt provide API yet so I decided to create this script which make GET requests and parse results using Hpricot.

Default translation is english to french but it can be overriden by providing command line options or config file. Translate can be used directly in command line or inside an other program.

Installation

Gem installation

Download and install translate with the following:

gem install translate

Common installation

Checkout the source code on github: git clone git://github.com/fuse/translate.git

ruby install.rb

It will ask you where you want to install the translate library and binary in your path.

Warning: Be carefull to NOT install translate with the both way.

Usage

From command line

translate world Will translate world from english to french.

translate casa -f it -t en Will translate casa from italian to english.

If you want to know which language can be used : translate -l

If you want to know all options of translate : translate -h

From another program

You only have to create a new instance or the translation class by giving the expression to translate and your options and explicitly call translate.

translation = Translation.new(“maison”, { :from => :fr, :to => :en, :more => true }) translation.translate

Results are directly available through translation.items

Setup default options

If you don’t want to retype options each time you’re using translate, just create a yaml config file into your home named translate.yml using this syntax : translate: from: fr to: en width: 100 more: true

Priority is given to command line options, config file options and finally default options.

Licence

Translate is available under MIT-LICENSE.

Other

Author: Martin Catty <[email protected]> License: Copyright 2008 by Martin Catty. Released under an MIT-style licence. See the LICENCE file included in the distribution.

Warranty

This software is provided “as is” and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantibility and fitness for a particular purpose.