How do I internationalize/localize my rails plugin?

I wrote a validates_word_count plugin. I would like to store the error messages in a YAML file so they can be easily translated.

Full source: https://github.com/paulschreiber/validates_word_count/

My plugin’s file layout looks like this: validates_word_count/ init.rb lib/ validates_word_count.rb locale/ en.yml

My YAML file looks like this: en: validates_word_count: errors: messages: too_few_words: “has too few words (minimum is %d words)” too_many_words: "has too many words (maximum is %d words)”

However, if I call I18n.translate(‘validates_word_count.errors.messages.too_few_words’), I get this error: translation missing: en, validates_word_count, errors, messages, too_few_words

How can I set up my plugin / locale so I18n.translate() works?

Paul