Basic recipe ingredient parser using parslet.
It is not, and will never be, perfect. If it can't separate out a name from an amount, it will fallback to just returning the whole string as the name.
If passed an empty string as input, it will return an empty ingredient object, with nil values for name and amount.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'ingredient_parser'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install ingredient_parser
2.1.2 :002 > ingr = IngredientParser.parse('10 tablespoons of bananas')
=> #<IngredientParser::Ingredient:0x007f92652c2938 @name="bananas", @amount="10 tablespoons">
2.1.2 :003 > ingr.name
=> "bananas"
2.1.2 :004 > ingr.amount
=> "10 tablespoons"
2.1.2 :005 >After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec 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.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lukeasrodgers/ingredient_parser.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.