A simple script to process a list of films to find the most common cast members.

global_cast.rb

require 'badfruit'
require 'guess'
require 'sexmachine'

d = SexMachine::Detector.new
bf = BadFruit.new("YOUR_RT_API_KEY")

movies = ["Hunger Games: Catching Fire","Gravity", "..." ]

total = movies.size.to_s
puts "Starting fetch for #{total} movies...\n"
cast = []
count = 0
movies.each do |movie|
	count += 1
	print count
	result = bf.movies.search_by_name(movie)[0]
	if result.nil?
		print ("\b"* count.to_s.length) + "   * No matches for: " + movie + "\n" 
	else
		result.full_cast.each do |member|
			cast.push([member.name, movie])
		end
	end
	print ("\b"* count.to_s.length)
end

puts "Calculating Results..."
results_hash = Hash.new()
cast.each do |member|
	begin
		results_hash[member[0]] = results_hash[member[0]].push(member[1])
	rescue
		results_hash[member[0]] = [member[1]]
	end
end

results = []
results_hash.each do |member|
	gender = Guess.gender(member[0])[:gender]
	if gender == "unknown"
		gender = d.get_gender(member[0], :usa).to_s #most likly to be an american context
		if gender.include? "male" #can be mostly_male in some cases...
			gender = "male"
		elsif gender.include? "female"
			gender = "female"
		else
			gender = "unknown"
		end
	end
	#classification ajustments
	male_names = ["Morgan Freeman", "Viggo", "Stellan", "Mads", "Woody", "Angus", "Giancarlo", "Afemo", "Jesper", "Ludger", "Mykelti"]
	female_names = ["Cate", "Sigourney", "Liv"]
	unknown_names = ["Jamie"]
	male = /#{male_names.join("|")}/
	female = /#{female_names.join("|")}/
	unknown = /#{unknown_names.join("|")}/
	if male === member[0]
		gender = "male"
	end
	if female === member[0]
		gender = "female"
	end
	if unknown === member[0]
		gender = "unknown"
	end
	results.push([member[0], gender, member[1].size, member[1]])
end
results = results.sort_by{|member|member[2]}.reverse

puts "\nQuery Results:"
results.each do |r|
	#uncomment to get *all* your results
	#puts t.to_s
end



puts "Top Ten"
results[0..9].each do |r| puts "   * #{r[0].to_s}, #{r[2].to_s}" end


count = 0
puts "\nTop Actors"
results.each do |r|
	if r[1] == "male"
		puts "   * #{r[0].to_s}, #{r[2].to_s}"
		count += 1
	end
	if count == 10
		break
	end
end
count = 0
puts "Top Actresses"
results.each do |r|
	if r[1] == "female"
		puts "   * #{r[0].to_s}, #{r[2].to_s}"
		count += 1
	end
	if count == 10
		break
	end
end
count = 0
puts "Top Unclassified"
results.each do |r|
	if r[1] == "unknown"
		puts "   * #{r[0].to_s}, #{r[2].to_s}"
		count += 1
	end
	if count == 10
		break
	end
end