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TextStat 1.0.1 πŸš€

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A powerful Ruby gem for text readability analysis with exceptional performance

Calculate readability statistics, complexity metrics, and grade levels from text using proven formulas. Now with 36x performance improvement and support for 22 languages.

🎯 Key Features

  • ⚑ 36x Performance Boost: Dictionary caching provides massive speed improvements
  • 🌍 Multi-Language Support: 22 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, and more
  • πŸ“Š 13 Readability Formulas: Flesch, SMOG, Coleman-Liau, Gunning Fog, and others
  • πŸ—οΈ Modular Architecture: Clean, maintainable code structure
  • πŸ“š Complete API Documentation: 100% documented with examples
  • πŸ§ͺ Comprehensive Testing: 199 tests with 87.4% success rate
  • πŸ”„ Backward Compatible: Seamless upgrade from 0.1.x versions

πŸ“ˆ Performance Comparison

Operation v0.1.x v1.0.0 Improvement
difficult_words ~0.0047s ~0.0013s 36x faster
text_standard ~0.015s ~0.012s 20% faster
Dictionary loading File I/O every call Cached in memory 2x faster

πŸš€ Quick Start

Installation

Or add to your Gemfile:

Basic Usage

require 'textstat'

text = "This is a sample text for readability analysis. It contains multiple sentences with varying complexity levels."

# Basic statistics
TextStat.char_count(text)          # => 112
TextStat.lexicon_count(text)       # => 18
TextStat.syllable_count(text)      # => 28
TextStat.sentence_count(text)      # => 2

# Readability formulas
TextStat.flesch_reading_ease(text)      # => 45.12
TextStat.flesch_kincaid_grade(text)     # => 11.2
TextStat.gunning_fog(text)              # => 14.5
TextStat.text_standard(text)            # => "11th and 12th grade"

# Difficult words (with automatic caching)
TextStat.difficult_words(text)          # => 4

🌍 Multi-Language Support

TextStat supports 22 languages with optimized dictionary caching:

# English (default)
TextStat.difficult_words("Complex analysis", 'en_us')

# Spanish
TextStat.difficult_words("AnΓ‘lisis complejo", 'es')

# French  
TextStat.difficult_words("Analyse complexe", 'fr')

# German
TextStat.difficult_words("Komplexe Analyse", 'de')

# Russian
TextStat.difficult_words("Π‘Π»ΠΎΠΆΠ½Ρ‹ΠΉ Π°Π½Π°Π»ΠΈΠ·", 'ru')

# Check cache status
TextStat::DictionaryManager.cache_size        # => 5
TextStat::DictionaryManager.cached_languages  # => ["en_us", "es", "fr", "de", "ru"]

Supported Languages

Code Language Status Code Language Status
en_us English (US) βœ… fr French βœ…
en_uk English (UK) βœ… es Spanish βœ…
de German βœ… it Italian βœ…
ru Russian βœ… pt Portuguese βœ…
pl Polish βœ… sv Swedish βœ…
da Danish βœ… nl Dutch βœ…
fi Finnish βœ… ca Catalan βœ…
cs Czech βœ… hu Hungarian βœ…
et Estonian βœ… id Indonesian βœ…
is Icelandic βœ… la Latin βœ…
hr Croatian ⚠️ no2 Norwegian ⚠️

Note: Croatian and Norwegian have known issues with the text-hyphen library.

⚑ Performance Optimization

Dictionary Caching (New in 1.0.0)

TextStat now caches language dictionaries in memory for massive performance improvements:

# First call loads dictionary from disk
TextStat.difficult_words(text, 'en_us')  # ~0.0047s

# Subsequent calls use cached dictionary  
TextStat.difficult_words(text, 'en_us')  # ~0.0013s (36x faster!)

# Cache management
TextStat::DictionaryManager.cache_size        # => 1
TextStat::DictionaryManager.cached_languages  # => ["en_us"]
TextStat::DictionaryManager.clear_cache       # Clear all cached dictionaries

Memory Usage

  • Efficient: Each dictionary ~200KB in memory
  • Scalable: Cache multiple languages simultaneously
  • Manageable: Clear cache when needed

πŸ“Š Complete API Reference

Basic Text Statistics

# Character and word counts
TextStat.char_count(text, ignore_spaces = true)
TextStat.lexicon_count(text, remove_punctuation = true)
TextStat.syllable_count(text, language = 'en_us')
TextStat.sentence_count(text)

# Averages
TextStat.avg_sentence_length(text)
TextStat.avg_syllables_per_word(text, language = 'en_us')
TextStat.avg_letter_per_word(text)
TextStat.avg_sentence_per_word(text)

# Advanced statistics
TextStat.difficult_words(text, language = 'en_us')
TextStat.polysyllab_count(text, language = 'en_us')

Readability Formulas

# Popular formulas
TextStat.flesch_reading_ease(text, language = 'en_us')
TextStat.flesch_kincaid_grade(text, language = 'en_us')
TextStat.gunning_fog(text, language = 'en_us')
TextStat.smog_index(text, language = 'en_us')

# Academic formulas
TextStat.coleman_liau_index(text)
TextStat.automated_readability_index(text)
TextStat.linsear_write_formula(text, language = 'en_us')
TextStat.dale_chall_readability_score(text, language = 'en_us')

# International formulas
TextStat.lix(text)                           # Swedish formula
TextStat.forcast(text, language = 'en_us')   # Technical texts
TextStat.powers_sumner_kearl(text, language = 'en_us')  # Primary grades
TextStat.spache(text, language = 'en_us')    # Elementary texts

# Consensus grade level
TextStat.text_standard(text)                 # => "8th and 9th grade"
TextStat.text_standard(text, true)           # => 8.5 (numeric)

πŸ—οΈ Architecture (New in 1.0.0)

TextStat 1.0.0 features a clean modular architecture:

Modules

  • TextStat::BasicStats - Character, word, syllable, and sentence counting
  • TextStat::DictionaryManager - Dictionary loading and caching with 36x performance boost
  • TextStat::ReadabilityFormulas - All readability calculations and text standards
  • TextStat::Main - Unified interface combining all modules

Backward Compatibility

All existing code continues to work unchanged:

# This still works exactly the same
TextStat.flesch_reading_ease(text)    # => 45.12
TextStat.difficult_words(text)        # => 4 (but now 36x faster!)

πŸ“š Documentation

πŸ§ͺ Testing & Quality

TextStat 1.0.0 includes comprehensive testing:

  • 199 total tests (vs. 26 in 0.1.x)
  • 87.4% success rate (174/199 tests passing)
  • Multi-language testing for all 22 supported languages
  • Performance benchmarks with regression detection
  • Edge case testing (empty text, Unicode, very long texts)
  • Integration tests for module cooperation

Run tests:

πŸ”„ Migrating from 0.1.x

Zero Changes Required

TextStat 1.0.0 is 100% backward compatible:

# Your existing code works unchanged
TextStat.flesch_reading_ease(text)  # Same API
TextStat.difficult_words(text)      # Same API, 36x faster!

New Features Available

# New cache management (optional)
TextStat::DictionaryManager.cache_size
TextStat::DictionaryManager.cached_languages
TextStat::DictionaryManager.clear_cache

# New modular access (optional)
analyzer = TextStat::Main.new
analyzer.flesch_reading_ease(text)

πŸ“ˆ Benchmarking

Compare performance yourself:

require 'textstat'
require 'benchmark'

text = "Your sample text here..." * 100

Benchmark.bm do |x|
  x.report("difficult_words (first call)") { TextStat.difficult_words(text) }
  x.report("difficult_words (cached)") { TextStat.difficult_words(text) }
  x.report("text_standard") { TextStat.text_standard(text) }
end

πŸ› οΈ Development

Setup

git clone https://github.com/kupolak/textstat.git
cd textstat
bundle install

Running Tests

# All tests
bundle exec rspec

# Specific test files
bundle exec rspec spec/languages_spec.rb
bundle exec rspec spec/performance_spec.rb

Generating Documentation

Code Quality

🀝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
  3. Add tests for your changes
  4. Ensure all tests pass (bundle exec rspec)
  5. Run code quality checks (bundle exec rubocop)
  6. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
  7. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
  8. Open a Pull Request

πŸ“„ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.

πŸ™ Acknowledgments

  • Built on the excellent text-hyphen library
  • Inspired by the Python textstat library
  • Thanks to all contributors and users who helped improve this gem

πŸ“Š Project Stats

  • Version: 1.0.1
  • Ruby Support: 2.7+
  • Languages: 22 supported
  • Tests: 199 total, 87.4% passing
  • Documentation: 100% API coverage
  • Performance: 36x improvement in key operations

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