# SQL database engine
database = None
-# beaker's cache manager
-cache = None
-
# should be the same as the
public_store = None
queue_store = None
# A thread-local scope
thread_scope = threading.local()
-# gettext (this will be populated on demand with gettext.Translations)
-thread_scope.translations = None
+# gettext (this needs to default to English so it doesn't break
+# in case we're running a script without the app like
+# ./bin/gmg theme assetlink)
+thread_scope.translations = gettext.translation(
+ 'mediagoblin',
+ pkg_resources.resource_filename(
+ 'mediagoblin', 'i18n'), ['en'], fallback=True)
# app and global config objects
app_config = None