Ruby-JDict

Ruby gem for accessing Jim Breen's Japanese dictionaries. Can currently access the following:

• JMdict (Japanese-English dictionary)

Note: For the moment, uses SQLite (via amalgalite) for data storage. Not intended to be scalable.

Install

gem install ruby-jdict

Usage

See this example for basic usage.

Issues

• The code for inserting Entry objects into the database is horrible. Should create multiple tables for each datatype instead of a single table for all datatypes.
• Some routines need to be generalized to allow for the usage of dictionaries besides JMDict (like Tatoeba or KANJIDIC).
• Many functions are getting too large/unreadable.