Module: Dinosaurus

Defined in:
lib/dinosaurus/configuration.rb,
lib/dinosaurus.rb,
lib/dinosaurus/results.rb,
lib/dinosaurus/version.rb,
lib/dinosaurus/railties.rb,
lib/dinosaurus/thesaurus.rb

Overview

Enable setting and getting of configuration options.

Example:

This can now be used under config/initializers/dinosaurus.rb
Dinosaurus.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = 'dfskljkf'
end

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Configuration, MissingApiKeyError, Railties, RemoteServiceError, Results, Thesaurus

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
"0.0.11"

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.antonyms_of(word) ⇒ Object

Convenience method to retrieve antonyms of a word.

Dinosaurus.antonyms_of('people')

Returns an array.



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# File 'lib/dinosaurus.rb', line 35

def self.antonyms_of(word)
  results = lookup(word)
  results.antonyms
end

.configuration ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/dinosaurus/configuration.rb', line 21

def self.configuration
  @configuration ||= Configuration.new
end

.configure {|configuration| ... } ⇒ Object

Yields:



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# File 'lib/dinosaurus/configuration.rb', line 25

def self.configure
  yield configuration
end

.lookup(word) ⇒ Object

Lookup a word in the Big Huge Thesaurus.

word is expected to be a string. This method is a no-op if the word is blank as defined by ActiveSupport.

Dinosaurus.lookup('people')

Returns an instance of Dinosaurus::Results



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# File 'lib/dinosaurus.rb', line 16

def self.lookup(word)
  Dinosaurus::Thesaurus.lookup(word)
end

.related_to(word) ⇒ Object

Convenience method to retrieve terms which are related to the given word.

Dinosaurus.related_to('people')

Returns an array.



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# File 'lib/dinosaurus.rb', line 57

def self.related_to(word)
  results = lookup(word)
  results.related_terms
end

.similar_to(word) ⇒ Object

Convenience method to retrieve similar terms to the given word.

Dinosaurus.similar_to('people')

Returns an array.



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# File 'lib/dinosaurus.rb', line 46

def self.similar_to(word)
  results = lookup(word)
  results.similar_terms
end

.synonyms_of(word) ⇒ Object

Convenience method to retrieve synonyms of a word.

Dinosaurus.synonyms_of('people')

Returns an array.



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# File 'lib/dinosaurus.rb', line 25

def self.synonyms_of(word)
  results = lookup(word)
  results.synonyms
end