ISO 639¶ ↑
A Ruby gem that provides the ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-1 data sets along with some convenience methods for accessing different entries and entry fields. The data comes from the LOC ISO 639-2 UTF-8 data set.
The ISO 639-1 specification uses a two-letter code to identify a language and is often the recommended way to identify languages in computer applications. The ISO 639-1 specification covers most developed and widely used languages.
The ISO 639-2 (Wikipedia) specification uses a three-letter code, is used primarily in bibliography and terminology and covers many more languages than the ISO 639-1 specification.
Installation¶ ↑
To install from RubyGems:
gem install iso-639
To install with Bundler, add the following to your Gemfile:
gem 'iso-639'
Then run bundle install
Usage¶ ↑
require 'iso-639'
To find a language entry:
# by alpha-2 or alpha-3 code ISO_639.find_by_code("en") # or ISO_639.find("en") # by English name ISO_639.find_by_english_name("Russian") # by French name ISO_639.find_by_french_name("français")
The ISO_639.search
class method searches across all fields and will match names in cases where a record has multiple names. This method always returns an array of 0 or more results. For example:
ISO_639.search("spanish") # => [["spa", "", "es", "Spanish; Castilian", "espagnol; castillan"]]
Entries are arrays with convenience methods for accessing fields:
@entry = ISO_639.find("slo") # => ["slo", "slk", "sk", "Slovak", "slovaque"] @entry.alpha3_bibliographic # => "slo" @entry.alpha3 # shortcut for #alpha3_bibliographic # => "slo" @entry.alpha3_terminologic # => "slk" @entry.alpha2 # => "sk" @entry.english_name # => "Slovak" @entry.french_name # => "slovaque"
The full data set is available through the ISO_639::ISO_639_1
and ISO_639::ISO_639_2
constants.
Note on Patches/Pull Requests¶ ↑
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright¶ ↑
Copyright © 2010 William Melody. See LICENSE for details.