Decouples completely from Rails. As a consequence, some bits got very, very ugly. Will be refactoring shortly

Author: dummied

lib/semantic_extraction.rb

@@ -2,28 +2,42 @@
 require 'nokogiri'
 require 'extlib'
 require 'ostruct'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/module/attr_accessor_with_default'
 
 module SemanticExtraction
 
   class << self
-    attr_accessor_with_default :preferred_extractor, "alchemy"
-    attr_accessor_with_default :alchemy_api_key, ""
-    attr_accessor_with_default :yahoo_api_key, ""
-    attr_accessor_with_default :valid_extractors, ["yahoo", "alchemy"]
-    attr_accessor_with_default :requires_api_key, ["yahoo", "alchemy"]
+    attr_reader :valid_extractors
+    attr_writer :valid_extractors
+    
+    attr_reader :requires_api_key
+    attr_writer :requires_api_key
+    
+    attr_reader :yahoo_api_key
+    attr_writer :yahoo_api_key
+    
+    attr_reader :alchemy_api_key
+    attr_writer :alchemy_api_key
+    
+    attr_reader :preferred_extractor
   end
 
+  self.valid_extractors = ["yahoo", "alchemy"]
+  
+  self.requires_api_key = ["yahoo", "alchemy"]
+  
   # By default, we assume you want to use Alchemy.
   # To override, just set SemanticExtraction.preferred_extractor somewhere and define the appropriate api_key.
   def self.preferred_extractor=(value)
     if self.valid_extractors.include?(value)
-      @@preferred_extractor = value
+      @preferred_extractor = value
     else
       raise NotSupportedExtractor
     end
-  end  
+  end 
 
+  self.preferred_extractor = "alchemy"
+
+    
   # Screw it. Hard-code time!
   require 'semantic_extraction/utility_methods'
   require 'semantic_extraction/extractors/yahoo'

test/api_extractor.rb

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ module ApiExtractor
     SemanticExtraction.valid_extractors << "api_extractor"
     SemanticExtraction.requires_api_key << "api_extractor"
 
-    SemanticExtraction.module_eval("mattr_accessor :api_extractor_api_key")
+    SemanticExtraction.module_eval("class << self; attr_reader :api_extractor_api_key end")
+    SemanticExtraction.module_eval("class << self; attr_writer :api_extractor_api_key end")
 
     SemanticExtraction.api_extractor_api_key = "bogus"