game_words

Game Words

Find words, phrases, songs, movies, characters, actions and sayings for Pictionary, Catchphrase, Charades or the holidays. Each game has several categories and difficulty levels. This library returns a word list for some or all categories (nearly 5,000 in all).

A command line interface is provided in addition to the Ruby library

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'game_words'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install game_words

Command Line Usage

Show all words for a game:

$ gamewords charades

Show all words for a specific game category:

$ gamewords catchphrase people

Show a list of games:

$ gamewords -l

Show a list of categories for a game:

$ gamewords -c pictionary

Show a single random word or phrase:

$ gamewords -r holidays newyears

Library Usage

Show all words for a game:

gen = GameWords::Generator.new
gen.words 'catchphrase'

Show the words for a specific game category:

gen.words 'charades', 'hard'

Show a list of games:

gen.games

Show the categories for a game:

gen.game_categories 'pictionary'

Easily show a random word:

gen.words('pictionary', 'easy').sample

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/gamewords/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request