Sentiment

Sentiment is a simple gem which allows you to get the sentiment of a string. It returns 1 for positive words or sentences, -1 for negative ones and 0 if neutral.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sentiment'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sentiment

Basic usage

Sentiment Analysis

require 'sentiment'

client = Sentiment::Client.new("e23d80483193fddd72a2c364a72cd738")

sentiment = client.sentiment("I love Ruby!","en")
=> 1

or sentiment = client.sentiment("amore","it")

=> 1

At this time the API supports the following languages:

• English (en)
• German (de)
• Italian (it)
• Spanish (es)
• French (fr)
• Turkish (tr)

KNOWN ISSUE: In case you get a "NoMethodError: undefined method stringify_keys' for #HTTParty::Response:0x007fa9231ab1b0"`

• It's telling you that the api key is invalid and therefore can't handle the server response. Please get a valid api key. The key in this document can be used for limited testing as well.

Contributing

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