Smart makemessages wrapper to account for gettext statements in CoffeeScript files.

fabfile.py

from fabric.api import lcd, local
from importlib import import_module
import sys

def makemessages(settings_module='settings'):
    """
    Generates the *.po files for everything.

    MAKE SURE YOU RUN collectstatic _BEFORE_ BUILDING THE PO FILES.

    :params
    settings_module -- settings module name relative to the project's
        root directory, being where manage.py lives. Defaults, of course,
        to settings.
    """
    
    project_dir = local(
            'find . -iname \'manage.py\' | sed \'s/\/manage\.py//g\'',
            capture=True
    )

    sys.path.append(project_dir)
    settings_module = import_module(settings_module)
    static_root = getattr(settings_module, 'STATIC_ROOT', 'static')

    with lcd(project_dir):
        local('django-admin.py makemessages -l fr')
        local('coffee -c %s/js/*.coffee' % static_root)
        local('django-admin.py makemessages -l fr --domain=djangojs')
        local("rm `find %s/js/*.coffee -iname '*.coffee' | sed 's/coffee$/js/g'`" % static_root)