[Rails I18n] Globalize vs. GetText for static text

I have been evaluating both Globalize and GetText for an application 
where I will be primarily translating static strings (i.e. I'm not 
translating values in the model).

I initially preferred Globalize because it seemed to be a more rails-ish 
way to do things, but I'm somewhat confused about how I would actually 
use Globalize for my task.

As I understand, Globalize stores all of it's translated strings in a 
database. These strings (unless you manually make a translation call) 
aren't created until the first time the application accesses that 
particular string. My question is how do people manage these strings in 
the build/deployment environment? There are three parts to this 1) how 
to migrate these strings to a new database 2) how to ensure that if the 
base translation changes that the dependent translations are flagged for 
update 3) how to get a complete list of strings which need to be 
translated.

I admit that I'm approaching this problem in a GetText sort of way so 
I'm hoping that I'm just missing something fundamental in Globalize 
which will address these issues. I can imagine it wouldn't be difficult 
for me to add some of this functionality, but I didn't want to reinvent 
the wheel.

Any guidance would be appreciated,

cva

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