Ruby bindings for the Rust crate human_name, a library for parsing and comparing human names.

See the human_name docs for details.

  require 'humanname'

  doe_jane = HumanName.parse("Doe, Jane")
  doe_jane.surname
  => "Doe"
  doe_jane.given_name
  => "Jane"
  doe_jane.initials
  => "J"

  j_doe = HumanName.parse("J. Doe")
  j_doe.surname
  => "Doe"
  j_doe.given_name
  => nil
  j_doe.initials
  => "J"

  j_doe == doe_jane
  => true
  j_doe == HumanName.parse("John Doe")
  => true
  doe_jane == HumanName.parse("John Doe")
  => false

Linux, MacOS, and Windows, as of the versions currently supported by GitHub Actions. x86-64 or Apple Silicon. Ruby 2.7 or later.

If you have access to another environment which is supported by the Rust compiler, it should be relatively straightforward to fork the library and add support. You'll need to build human_name, copy the resulting library from target/release/ in that repository to lib/native/<arch>/ in this one, and modify native_lib_path appropriately. If this environment is additionally supported by GitHub Actions, I'm also happy to accept a PR.