ELDC

Ruby binding for Efficient Language Detector (written in C) (ELDC).

Project repository: https://github.com/gemmaro/ruby-eldc

Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

bundle add eldc

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install eldc

Usage

detector = ELDC::Detector.instance
detector.detect("Bonjour le monde") #=> "fr"

detector.detect_details("Bonjour le monde")
#=> #<ELDC::DetectResult
#     lang=fr
#     reliable=1
#     scores=[#<ELDC::ScoreItem
#               lang=fr
#               score=0.9016362428665161>,
#             #<ELDC::ScoreItem
#               lang=de
#               score=0.5073475241661072>,
#             #<ELDC::ScoreItem
#               lang=no
#               score=0.5018803477287292>]>

See more details in the API documentation.

Development

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 the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

License

Copyright 2026 gemmaro

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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