Rocket I18N

A crate to help you internationalize your Rocket applications.

Features

• Create .po files for locales listed in po/LINGUAS, from a POT file
• Update .po files from the POT file if needed
• Compile .po files into .mo ones
• Select the correct locale for each request
• Integrates with Tera templates

Usage

First add it to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
rocket_i18n = "0.1"

Then, in your main.rs:

extern crate rocket_i18n;

// ...

fn main() {
    rocket::ignite()
        // Register the fairing. The parameter is the domain you want to use (the name of your app most of the time)
        .attach(rocket_i18n::I18n::new("my_app"))
        // Eventually register the Tera filters (only works with the master branch of Rocket)
        .attach(rocket_contrib::Template::custom(|engines| {
            rocket_i18n::tera(&mut engines.tera);
        }))
        // Register routes, etc
}

For the developers

Using Tera filters

If you called rocket_i18n::tera, you'll be able to use two Tera filters to translate your interface.

The first one, _, corresponds to the gettext function of gettext. It takes a string as input and translate it. Any argument given to the filter can be used in the translated string using the Tera syntax.

<p>{{ "Hello, world" | _ }}</p>
<p>{{ "Your name is {{ name }}" | _(name=user.name) }}

The second one, _n, is equivalent to ngettext. It takes the plural form as input, and two required arguments in addition to those you may want to use for interpolation:

• singular, the singular form of this string
• count, the number of items, to determine how the string should be pluralized

<p>{{ "{{ count }} new messages" | _n(singular="One new message", count=messages.unread_count) }}</p>

In Rust code

You can also use all the gettext functions in your Rust code.

use rocket_i18n;

#[get("/")]
fn index() -> String {
    gettext("Hello, world!")
}

#[get("/<name>")]
fn hello(name: String) -> String {
    format!(gettext("Hello, {}!"), name)
}

Editing the POT

For those strings to be translatable you should also add them to the po/YOUR_DOMAIN.pot file. To add a simple message, just do:

msgid "Hello, world" # The string you used with your filter
msgstr "" # Always empty

For plural forms, the syntax is a bit different:

msgid "You have one new notification" # The singular form
msgid_plural "You have {{ count }} new notifications" # The plural one
msgstr[0] ""
msgstr[1] ""