textstat-rb

Textstat is an utility to get statistics about text content.

The main reason behind this is me wanting to hack on a nice little project. Textstat happens to be well suited to explore new technologies. There's also a Go version of this project.

Setup

• Make sure you have Ruby installed.
• And download the code: git clone https://github.com/jorin-vogel/textstat-rb.git

Usage

Textstat can be used as a command-line tool or via its Ruby API.

Command-line

You can pass a path to a file:

bin/textstat spec/shakespeare.txt

Or stream content to Textstat:

echo 'some content' | bin/textstat
bin/textstat < spec/shakespeare.txt
cat spec/shakespeare.txt | bin/textstat

To analyze a whole folder you could run:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat | bin/textstat

Ruby API

See the spec/textstat_spec.rb file for usage examples or explore the API.

It's less than 50 lines of code 😉

Development

Requirements

• Ruby
• Bundler (gem install bundler)

Setup

• Run bundle inside the repo directory.

Workflow

• Run guard.
• Hit enter to run all tests.
• Use the guard console to run arbitrary ruby code.
• Tests auto-rerun when files are changed.
• Put binding.pry in your code to stop at this point and open pry.

License

MIT