Question

I use to_lang to translate text in Rails 3 application.
I noticed that it converts newlines to spaces.
What is the most appropriate approach to preserve the newlines in the original text?
I don’t want to split the original text by "\n", translate the parts, and then combine them again, since it will increase the number of requests.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I’ve tested it with :debug => :request:

{:key=>"--", :q=>"To prevent abuse, Google places limits on API requests.\nUsing a valid OAuth 2.0 token or API key allows you to exceed \nanonymous limits by connecting requests back to your project.", :target=>"ru"}

and as you can see it’s not the gem fault. So, to_lang can translate arrays too. And if you’ll write something like ["one", "two", "three"].to_russian it will be one request to the Google API.

UPDATE:

irb(main):001:0> str = "test1\ntest2\ntest3"
=> "test1\ntest2\ntest3"
irb(main):002:0> arr = str.split("\n")
=> ["test1", "test2", "test3"]
irb(main):003:0> str = arr.join("\n")
=> "test1\ntest2\ntest3"