= Gender Detector {}[https://travis-ci.org/AUTOMATICxx/genderdetector]

This is a fork of a gem named SexMachine by Brian Muller.

This version is changed in a way that it won't output discriminating results anymore.

This gem uses the underlying data from the program "gender" by Jorg Michael (described {here}[http://www.autohotkey.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=22000]). Its use is pretty straightforward:

require 'genderdetector' d = GenderDetector::Detector.new d.get_gender("Bob") :andy d.get_gender("Sally") :andy d.get_gender("Pauley") # should be androgynous :andy

The result will be one of andy (androgynous), male, female, mostly_male, or mostly_female. Any unknown names are considered andies.

I18N is fully supported:

d.get_gender("Álfrún") :andy

Additionally, you can give preference to specific countries:

d.get_gender("Jamie") => :andy d.get_gender("Jamie", :great_britain) => :andy

If you have an alterative data file, you can pass that in as an optional filename argument to the Detector. Additionally, you can create a detector that is not case sensitive (default is to be case sensitive):

d = GenderDetector::Detector.new(:case_sensitive => false) d.get_gender "sally" => :andy d.get_gender "Sally" => :andy

Try to avoid creating many Detectors, as each creation means reading in the data file.

= Licenses The genderator code is distributed under the GPLv3. The data file nam_dict.txt is released under the GNU Free Documentation License.