jfiander / translate

Google Multi-Translator

Installation

gem install google-cloud-translate

You will need a Google Cloud API account.

Required changes

• PROJECT_ID within translate.rb needs to be configured to your project id.
• You must set the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to the path to the downloaded JSON configuration file.

Usage

For Community Translate posts from Malinda:

load 'translate.rb'

Translate.malinda(lines)

For general use:

load 'translate.rb'

t = Translate.new(steps: 10) do
  [
    'This is a test.',
    'These will be translated too much.',
    'You have been warned.'
  ]
end

t.run # Calls the API
t.text # The resultant text.
t.text_pairs # The resultant text pairs.
t.languages_used(true) # The names of the languages used.

You can also specify which languages to use:

t = Translate.new(
  use_languages: [
    { 'name' => 'French', 'code' => 'fr' },
    { 'name' => 'German', 'code' => 'de' }
  ]
) do
  [
    'This is a test.',
    'These will be translated too much.',
    'You have been warned.'
  ]
end