Rake task will now populate translations from entire project director…

…y .. but you can override.

lib/i18n_util.rb

@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ def self.extract_i18n_keys(hash, parent_keys = [])
   end
 
   # Create translation records for all existing locales from translation calls with the application.  Ignores errors from tranlations that require objects.
-  def self.seed_application_translations
-    translated_objects.each do |object|
+  def self.seed_application_translations(dir='app')
+    translated_objects(dir).each do |object|
       interpolation_arguments= object.scan(/\{\{(.*?)\}\}/).flatten
       object = object[/'(.*?)'/, 1] || object[/"(.*?)"/, 1]
       options = {}
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def self.translated_objects(dir='app')
     assets = []
     Dir.glob("#{dir}/*").each do |item|
       if File.directory?(item)
-        assets += translated_objects(item)
+        assets += translated_objects(item) unless item.ends_with?('i18n_backend_database') # ignore self
       else
         File.readlines(item).each do |l|
           assets += l.scan(/I18n.t\((.*?)\)/).flatten

tasks/i18n.rake

@@ -31,9 +31,10 @@ namespace :i18n do
       end
     end
 
-    desc 'Populate the translation tables from translation calls within the application. This only works on basic text translations'
+    desc 'Populate the translation tables from translation calls within the application. This only works on basic text translations. Can set DIR to override starting directory.'
     task :from_application => :environment do
-      I18nUtil.seed_application_translations
+      dir = ENV['DIR'] ? ENV['DIR'] : "."
+      I18nUtil.seed_application_translations(dir)
     end
 
     desc 'Create translation records from all default locale translations if none exists.'