Module: Cheferize

Defined in:
lib/cheferize.rb,
lib/cheferize/version.rb,
lib/cheferize/chef_string.rb

Overview

Cheferize : A Ruby library to ‘translate’ strings into Swedish Chef. Copyright 2010 by Alex Dean <[email protected]>.

Usage: >> class String; include Cheferize; end >> “This is a test!”.to_chef

> “Tees is e test, bork bork bork!”

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Inspired by encheferizer.php by eamelink (Erik Bakker). About encheferizer.php :

http://bork.eamelink.nl (defunct as of 17 Jan 2010)
Based on the original chef.x from John Hagerman.
More info about the original chef.x : http://tbrowne.best.vwh.net/chef/ (also defunct as of 17 Jan 2010)

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: ChefString

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
"0.1.1"

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.cheferize_rule(name, &block) ⇒ Object

Define a transformation rule. Block must accept subject & position parameters.



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# File 'lib/cheferize.rb', line 83

def self.cheferize_rule(name, &block)
  @rules ||= []
  sym = name.to_sym
  @rules << sym
  define_method(sym, block)
end

.cheferize_rules ⇒ Object

Shows the transliteration rules.



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# File 'lib/cheferize.rb', line 91

def self.cheferize_rules
  @rules
end

.included(other) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/cheferize.rb', line 33

def self.included(other)
  if !other.respond_to?(:to_s)
    raise "#{other} cannot include Cheferize.  #{other} does not respond to to_s."
  end
end

Instance Method Details

#cheferize_word(input) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/cheferize.rb', line 47

def cheferize_word(input)
  i=0
  output = ''
  # see rule "interior ir becomes ur, or first-occurring interior i becomes ee"
  @chef_saw_an_i = nil

  while i < input.size do
    # a single character will be :first but not :last.
    position = nil
    if i == 0
      position = :first
    elsif i == (input.size - 1)
      position = :last
    end

    # apply rules to each character, breaking on the first one which returns output
    # for the word 'testify', the rules will see 'testify', 'estify', 'stify', 'tify', etc...
    subject = input[i..(input.size-1)]

    Cheferize.cheferize_rules.each do |rule|
      out = self.send(rule, subject, position)
      # uncomment to see to_chef in action.
      #puts "#{subject} #{' ('+position.to_s+') ' if position}: '#{rule.to_s}' returns '#{out.inspect}'"
      if out
        output += out[0]
        i += out[1]
        break
      end
    end
  end

  output
end

#to_chef ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/cheferize.rb', line 39

def to_chef
  # TODO : punctuation will break rules which assert :last position.
  output = to_s.split(' ').map do |word|
    cheferize_word(word)
  end
  output.join(' ')
end