class Lyracyst::Urban

Urban Dictionary is a crowd-sourced dictionary that focuses on slang and colloquialisms.

Public Instance Methods

get_word(search, result) click to toggle source

Fetches URL.

@param search [String] The word or phrase to search for. @param result [String] The search response.

# File lib/lyracyst/urban.rb, line 9
def get_word(search, result)
  prefix = 'http://api.urbandictionary.com/v0/define?term='
  url = "#{prefix}#{search}"
  request = HTTPI::Request.new(url)
  getter = HTTPI.get(request)
  result = getter.body
end