From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T20:20:22+09:00
Subject: Re: double_metaphone.rb

On 18/08/06, Tim Fletcher <twoggle@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure it's worth a gem, as it's quite easy just to drop in.
>
> As for symbols/strings, the string is already there and generated, so
> might as well return it. It's easy enough to use to_sym, if that's what
> your application needs/prefers.
>
> Forgot to mention: if anyone's looking for the regular (non Double)
> Ruby metaphone, it's at http://po-ru.com/projects/metaphone/

Oh, that's one of mine. Perhaps we should package Metaphone, Double
Metaphone, and Levenshtein[1] together - perhaps with Soundex[2] too.

Paul.

1. http://po-ru.com/projects/levenshtein/
2. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/soundex/