From: Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@...>
Date: 2011-03-14T18:29:51+09:00
Subject: Re: best search method

> Never done this in Ruby so there may be a better way.   But why not actually use Soundex?

Replying to myself and therefore proving I leap before I look.

Implementations of Soundex, Metaphone and Double-metaphone in Ruby here: https://github.com/threedaymonk/text#readme

Looks like you just 'gem install text', or similar.