Ruby gem to replace a string's accent characters with unaccented characters. Based on SixArm Ruby Unaccent.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'unaccent'And then execute:
$ bundle install
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install unaccent
require 'unaccent'
Unaccent.unaccent('déjà vu') # deja vu
Unaccent.unaccent('νέα') # νεα
require 'unaccent/string'
'déjà vu'.unaccent # deja vu
'νέα'.unaccent # νεαWarming up --------------------------------------
unaccent 3.259k i/100ms
sixarm 838.000 i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
unaccent 32.573k (± 2.1%) i/s - 162.950k in 5.004780s
sixarm 8.025k (± 4.6%) i/s - 40.224k in 5.023339s
Comparison:
unaccent: 32573.1 i/s
sixarm: 8024.7 i/s - 4.06x (± 0.00) slower
Calculating -------------------------------------
unaccent 5.947k memsize ( 0.000 retained)
76.000 objects ( 0.000 retained)
42.000 strings ( 0.000 retained)
sixarm 29.979k memsize ( 0.000 retained)
633.000 objects ( 0.000 retained)
50.000 strings ( 0.000 retained)
Comparison:
unaccent: 5947 allocated
sixarm: 29979 allocated - 5.04x more
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
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 tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/hardpixel/unaccent.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.