EnglishThesaurus

Search synonyms from http://thesaurus.com/

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'english_thesaurus'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install english_thesaurus

Usage

thesaurus = EnglishThesaurus::Thesaurus.new("word you want to know it's synonyms")

thesaurus.all_synonyms # => return all synonyms

thesaurus.synonyms(relevancy: :high) # => return high relevancy synonyms. 
# relevancy: high, middle, low 

thesaurus.synonyms(relevancy: :middle, word_of_speech: 'noun') # => return synonyms filtered by relevancy and word_of_speech

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/english_thesaurus.