[ruby-core:85909] [Ruby trunk Bug#14572] Gem::Text methods not available

Issue #14572 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


Yes, I would not have known myself if havenwood would not have
pointed out to me, a few years ago, that levensthein-calculation
exists within the Gem namespace (I make use of it in one gem that
deals with bioinformatics of some sorts; there the levensthein
distance can be useful to assess differences between
nucleotide/aminoacid sequences).

I think this is not a bug but more like a suggestion to enhance
the documentation - perhaps one or two examples could be added.

PS: The Gem namespace has quite a few nifty things; I especially
like Gem::Version.new() to compare version of programs, and
if you ever need the registered licenses, you can use 
Gem::Licenses::IDENTIFIERS - there is a lot of useful stuff 
within Gem; finding them is not always trivial though.

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Bug #14572: Gem::Text methods not available
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14572#change-70763

* Author: svnpenn (Steven Penny)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN
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http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rubygems/rdoc/Gem/Text.html

none of these work because they are private? see example here of workaround

http://stackoverflow.com/a/46029581



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