Check for hardcoded text in Rails views - I18n

I think you can get very far by just using grep:

cat $(find . | grep .html.erb) | grep -v '[=<>{}$/;]' | grep '\w \w'

This finds texts based on the idea that there are some characters which are not typical for texts

grep -v '[=<>{}$/;]'

and that there should be at least one space with a preceding word character and one where a word character follows

grep '\w \w'

This might not be a hundred percent accurate but is a fast and easy way to quickly check for hard coded text.


If most lines of code are short and the hard-coded text is long, you can use strings -n [number] to find any text with a particular number of characters.

  <html>                                  |
   <head>                                 |
     <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
                                          |
     <title>Example Page</title>          |
                                          |
   </head>                                |
                                          |
   <body>                                 |
     <h1><%= @page.name %></h1>           |
     <p>                                  |
       This is a piece of hard coded text which must be found.
     </p>                                 |
   </body>                                |
  </html>                                 | 40 characters

If you set the length to 40...

$ cat $(find . | grep .html.erb) | strings -n 40
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  This is a piece of hard coded text which must be found.

It should be mostly accurate in finding hard-coded text.

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