Tongues

Language detection gem using detectlanguage.com api. Returns the language of a string or a symbol.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'tongues'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install tongues

Usage

The gem installed, you need to generate the initializer file:

rails generate tongues:initializer

Add your detectlanguage.com api key inside config/initializers/tongues.rb:

Tongues.configure do |config|
  require 'tongues'
  config.api_key = ''
end

You are now ready to use the gem

"how you get a String language".tongue # => "ENGLISH"
"how you get a String language code".tongue_code # => "en"
"how you get the confidence in a language detection".tongue_confidence # => 15.09

"is this english".en? # => true
"is this english".english? # => true

:"how you get a Symbol language".tongue # => "ENGLISH"
:"how you get a Symbol language code".tongue_code # => "en"
:"how you get the confidence in a language detection".tongue_confidence # => 15.09

:"is this english".en? # => true
:"is this english".english? # => true

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request