raspell
An interface binding for the Aspell spelling checker.
Copyright 2007-2010 Cloudburst, LLC. Licensed under the GPL 2.0. See included LICENSE file. Portions copyright 2005 Matthias Veit, Biro Eszter and used with permission.
The public certificate for the gem is here.
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Raspell requires Aspell version 0.6 (www.aspell.net) and at least one Aspell dictionary.
Mac:
sudo port install aspell aspell-dict-en
Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install aspell libaspell-dev aspell-en
Mac:
sudo gem install raspell -- --with-opt-dir=/opt/local
Ubuntu:
sudo gem install raspell
Aspell lets you check words and suggest corrections. For example:
require 'rubygems' require 'raspell' speller = Aspell.new("en_US") speller.suggestion_mode = Aspell::NORMAL string = "my haert wil go on" string.gsub(/[\w\']+/) do |word| if !speller.check(word) # word is wrong puts "Possible correction for #{word}:" puts speller.suggest(word).first end end
This outputs:
Possible correction for haert: heart Possible correction for wil: Will
Note that suggest returns an array of suggestions even for words that are correctly spelled.
The most useful options are suggestion_mode, and the passthrough option ignore_case. Passthrough options have to be set as so:
speller.set_option("ignore-case", "true")
See aspell.net/man-html/The-Options.html for a list of the passthrough options.
The support forum is here.
Patches and contributions are very welcome. Please note that contributors are required to assign copyright for their additions to Cloudburst, LLC.
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