Ruby Solution To Phrase Synonym Count Winner

challenge.rb

# 1) Write a function which takes a phrase.
# 2) Phrase is "May the force be with you"
# 3) Which of these words has the most synonyms

require 'json'
require 'net/http'

API_KEY = 'SECRET'
BASE_URL = "http://thesaurus.altervista.org/service.php?language=en_US&output=json&key=#{API_KEY}&word=";

def synonym_data(word)
  uri = URI.parse "#{BASE_URL}#{word}"
  JSON.parse Net::HTTP.get(uri)
end

def synonyms_from_data(data)
  return [] if data['error']
  lists = data['response']
  lists.map { |list|
    synonyms = list['list']['synonyms'].split('|')
    synonyms.reject! { |s| s =~ /\(antonym\)/ } # Antonyms are not Synonyms.
    synonyms.map { |s| s.sub /\s\(.*\)/, '' }   # Remove things like " (related term)"
  }.flatten.uniq
end

def synonym_count(word)
  data = synonym_data(word)
  synonyms_from_data(data).length
end

def phrase_to_words_and_synonym_count_hash(phrase)
  words = phrase.split ' '
  counts = words.map { |w| Thread.new(w) { |word| synonym_count(word) } }.collect(&:value)
  Hash[words.zip(counts)]
end

def word_with_most_synonyms_from_phrase(phrase)
  data = phrase_to_words_and_synonym_count_hash(phrase)
  most = data.values.max
  word = data.detect { |w,c| c == most }
  {word: word[0], count: word[1]}
end

word_with_most_synonyms_from_phrase "May the force be with you" # => {word: "force", count: 62}

Made a few updates. The word_with_most_synonyms_from_phrase returns a Hash now.