$curl -O http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/stanford-ner-2012-04-07.tgz$ tar xvfz stanford-ner-2012-04-07.tgz

Run NER as a service on port 8080:

$ java -mx1000m -cp stanford-ner-2012-04-07/stanford-ner.jar edu.stanford.nlp.ie.NERServer -loadClassifier stanford-ner-2012-04-07/classifiers/english.muc.7class.distsim.crf.ser.gz -port 8080 -outputFormat inlineXML &

Install required gems

$ bundle install

Try it

$ ruby get_named_entities.rb

Optionally, pass in your own http address

$ ruby get_named_entities.rb http://example.com