From: "Jakub Pavlík jn." <severus@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T06:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: look at code in a gem

> Hi everyone.  I'm new to Ruby and have a question that I hope is  
> simple.  I wanted to compare some strings for similarity, and found  
> this ruby gem called "english" (http://english.rubyforge.org/) which  
> has a method called "similarity" that gives me back a similarity score  
> when used.  I wanted to know how that score is being calculated - and  
> I looked through the docs and couldn't find it.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's a way to easily "see" the code for a  
> particular method from a gem - can i somehow use irb to show me the  
> code for "similarity" to see how it is coming up with that score?
> 
> Thanks, and sorry if this is a silly newbie question.
> 
> 

Type

gem unpack english

It will unpack the gem into cwd and you can search the code.

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