THIS LIBRARY IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT.
Guess the gender of names with the help of the genderize.io.
gem install genderedYou can guess one name at a time...
> require'gendered' > name=Gendered::Name.new("Sean") > name.gender > :not_guessed > name.guess!=>:male > name.male?=>true > name.female?=>false > name.probability=>"0.99E0" > name.sample_size=>967Or batch up a list of names (which sends only one request per hundred names to the API)...
> require'gendered' > name_list=Gendered::NameList.new(["Sean","Theresa"]) > name_list.guess!=>[:male,:female] > name_list.collect{ |name| name.male?}=>[true,false] > name_list.collect{ |name| name.female?}=>[false,true] > name_list.collect{ |name| name.probability.to_f}=>[0.99,1.0] > name_list.collect{ |name| name.sample_size}=>[967,370] > name_list["Sean"].gender=>:maleOptions can be passed in too...
options={:apikey=>"X123Y456",:country_id=>"dk"}name=Gendered::Name.new("Sean")name.guess!(options)name_list=Gendered::NameList.new(["Kim","Theresa"],options)Or set globally, as defaults...
Gendered.configuredo |config| config.apikey="X123Y456"config.language_id="pt"# ...end