Question

i use gettext for a rails project and every time i start my server i get messages like

Warning: obsolete msgid exists.
     #~ "some tranlation: "
Warning: obsolete msgid exists.
     #~ "some tranlation: "
...
...

Now i know these are just translations that arent used anymore. I would like to delete them but instead of modifying all the .po files i would like to do it with a command.

Is there an easy way to quickly get rid of those translations?

Gems used:

 gem 'gettext', '>=1.9.3', :require => false
 gem 'gettext_i18n_rails'

Answer 1

The gettext utilities include a command to do exactly this

msgattrib --output-file=xxx.po --no-obsolete xxx.po