google translate API This is based on the documentation found here http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Versioning look for the paragraph 'Flash and other Non-Javascript Environments'

INSTALL

include the github source in your Rubygem sources (see http://gems.github.com/) to install the gem sudo gem install elisehuard-google_translate

HOWTO

include module GoogleTranslate (or use it as namespace, as required) translate: translator = Translator.new("en","fr") # so several translations can be performed with this new object result = translator.translate("nice day today") # returns "belle journée aujourd'hui"

language detection: language = LanguageDetect.detect("il fait beau aujourd'hui") # returns "fr"

TODO

• It's not mandatory, but they ask for an API key to be included. This could be added later on if required, preferrably in a YAML style config file.
• handle untranslateable strings
• maybe introduce some light caching for translation to avoid requests

Look at specs for behaviour.

Suggestions are welcome !

License (MIT)

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