Get synonyms and antonyms of a word in Rails.

In this blog, we will integrate Big Huge Labs Thesaurus API in our Rails app for getting synonyms and antonyms of a word. For this we will use dinosaurus gem.

So, in Gemfile.

 gem 'dinosaurus'

Run bundle.

Before initializing this we have to get an api key for configuration. We can get it from here.

For initializing, create a file dinosaurus.rb in config/initializer and put below code in this file.

 
 Dinosaurus.configure do |config|
   config.api_key = 'your_api_key'
 end 

Now, we can use it as

 > Dinosaurus.synonyms_of('word')

 => ["news", "intelligence", "tidings", "discussion", "give-and-take", "parole", "word of honor", "Son", "Word", "Logos", "password",   "watchword", "countersign", "Bible", "Christian Bible", "Book", "Good Book", "Holy Scripture", "Holy Writ", "Scripture", "Word of God",  "arcanum", "computer memory unit", "hypostasis", "hypostasis of Christ", "info", "information", "language", "language unit",   "linguistic unit", "oral communication", "order", "positive identification", "promise", "religious text", "religious writing", "sacred   text", "sacred writing", "secret", "speech", "speech communication", "spoken communication", "spoken language", "statement", "voice   communication", "give voice", "formulate", "phrase", "articulate", "evince", "express", "show"]

  > Dinosaurus.antonyms_of('synonyms')

  => ["antonym"]

You can get synonyms and antonyms together with lookup method. It will return a hash like this

 > Dinosaurus.lookup('word')

  => {"noun"=>{"syn"=>["news", "intelligence", "tidings", "discussion", "give-and-take", "parole", "word of honor", "Son", "Word",   "Logos", "password", "watchword", "countersign", "Bible", "Christian Bible", "Book", "Good Book", "Holy Scripture", "Holy Writ",   "Scripture", "Word of God", "arcanum", "computer memory unit", "hypostasis", "hypostasis of Christ", "info", "information", "language",  "language unit", "linguistic unit", "oral communication", "order", "positive identification", "promise", "religious text", "religious   writing", "sacred text", "sacred writing", "secret", "speech", "speech communication", "spoken communication", "spoken language",   "statement", "voice communication"]}, "verb"=>{"syn"=>["give voice", "formulate", "phrase", "articulate", "evince", "express", "show"]}}