Inflect

The micro-framework for service integration.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'inflect'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install inflect

Generate your Service:

$ inflect generate:service Weather

IMPORTANT: service name must be in CamelCase.

All the actions that you declare in the array must have its corresponding method.

class WeatherService < Inflect::AbstractService
  def initialize
    @priority = 2
    @words    = %W[WEATHER TODAY]
  end

  # This method will be executed whenever the action is not defined in the
  # words query array.
  def default
    respond "This is the default weather cast"
  end

  # This is method will be called when the action TODAY is present in
  # the words query array. It can optionally carry necessary arguments.
  def today(location = nil)
    if location.nil?
      respond "Weather for today is... very hot."
    else
      respond "The weather for #{location} is... also very hot."
    end
  end
end

Call Inflect with the array of words.

words = %W[WEATHER TODAY]

Inflect.handle(words) # Return Response object with weather for today

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test 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/[USERNAME]/inflect. We follow the Ruby best practices and community-driven standards well explained in bbatsov's ruby-style-guide, see https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide.

To generate docs run (if not installed):

  gem install yard

Then to generate the docs:

$ yardoc

To run doc server:

$ yard server

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.