Better Support for I18n

[sshaw]

Using _() (and others) are preferable to I18n.t as you don't have to explicitly set the separator. Currently these methods are provided via FastGettext's helpers, which are included globally.

The problem is these helpers do not really interact with I18n. So if have something like:

# I18n.backend is set to GettextI18nRails::Backend via this gem
I18n.backend = I18n::Backend::Chain.new(I18n::Backend::KeyValue.new($redis), I18n.backend)

One must say:

I18n.t text, :separator => "|"

To take advantage of the chain.

Instead of including FastGettext::Translation, why not include I18n::Gettext::Helpers instead? Then _() will work out the box for situations like the above.

[grosser]

sounds interesting ... if you get the example app running with this / add this new behavior as testcase I think it would be an easy switch ...