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raspell

An interface binding for the Aspell spelling checker.

This gem is unmaintained. Please use ffi-aspell instead.

Copyright 2007-2012 Cloudburst, LLC. Licensed under the GPL 2.0. See included LICENSE file. Portions copyright 2005 Matthias Veit, Biro Eszter and used with permission.

Raspell requires Aspell version 0.6 (www.aspell.net) and at least one Aspell dictionary.

MacPorts:

port install aspell aspell-dict-en

Homebrew:

brew install aspell --lang=en

Ubuntu:

apt-get install aspell libaspell-dev aspell-en

Mac:

gem install raspell -- --with-opt-dir=/opt/local

Ubuntu:

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.

• blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2007/03/10/add-gud-spelning-to-ur-railz-app-or-wharever