Levenshtein in Ruby 1.9

In Ruby 1.8, I would use the gem ‘levenshtein’… well that doesn’t work in 1.9. So you need to install the gem ‘text’.

Then the call is as simple as:

Text::Levenshtein.distance('hello', 'hell')

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-JP