Linguistics is a framework for building linguistic utilities for Ruby objects in any language. It includes a generic language-independant front end, a module for mapping language codes into language names, and a module which contains various English-language utilities.

Thesaurus gem

Ever wanted to monkey patch some Ruby code but hate the name "monkey patching"? Have no fear, "duck_punching" will serve up a handy list of synonyms. Not responsible for accidental euphemistic implications.

Find synonyms and antonyms from the command line.

This gem is a container for the default SQLUNet database files loaded by the 'wordnet' gem if you don't have your own installation of the WordNet databases. It's mostly just a wrapper around the Sqlite database from: http://sqlunet.sourceforge.net/ To use it, just install the gem and then create the WordNet::Lexicon with no arguments.