Module: BabelFish

Defined in:
lib/babelfish.rb

Overview

Ruby interface to Yahoo! BabelFish translation service.

Constant Summary collapse

PROJECT =

project information

'babelfish'
VERSION = 
'0.0.1'
RELEASE = 
'2008-12-30'
WEBSITE = 
"http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/#{PROJECT}"
SUMMARY = 
'Ruby interface to Yahoo! BabelFish translation service.'
DISPLAY = 
PROJECT + ' ' + VERSION
INSTALL = 
File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..'))
SERVICE_URI =

the URI through which the translation service is accessed

URI.parse('http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt')
LANGUAGE_NAMES =

Provides access to a language’s name when given a language code.

{}
LANGUAGE_PAIRS =

Provides access to a list of destination language codes when given a source language code. In other words, this hash tells you the possible translations that are supported by the service.

Hash.new {|h,k| h[k] = Set.new }
LANGUAGE_CODES =

A list of possible language codes supported by the service.

LANGUAGE_PAIRS.keys

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.translate(input_text, input_lang_code, output_lang_code, output_encoding = 'utf-8') ⇒ Object

Translates the given input from the given source language into the given destination language.

input_text

the text you want to translate

input_lang_code

the code of the language in which the input text is written

output_lang_code

language code of the result of translation

output_encoding

desired encoding of the result of translation



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# File 'lib/babelfish.rb', line 64

def BabelFish.translate input_text, input_lang_code, output_lang_code, output_encoding = 'utf-8'
  output_page = Net::HTTP.post_form(
    SERVICE_URI,
    :eo => output_encoding,
    :lp => "#{input_lang_code}_#{output_lang_code}",
    :trtext => input_text.to_s
  )

  doc = Hpricot(output_page.body)
  (doc / '#result' / 'div').inner_html
end