FFI::Aspell

FFI::Aspell is an FFI binding for the Aspell library. It was mainly written as Raspell, a C binding for Aspell, is buggy and no longer maintained by the main author as of April 2012.

• Ruby 1.9.3 or newer
• Aspell
• Aspell language packs for your used language(s)

For running the tests the following language packs are required:

• Dutch: aspell-nl
• English: aspell-en
• Greek: aspell-el

Aspell can be installed as following:

• Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S aspell
• Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install aspell libaspell-dev
• OS X: brew install aspell --with-lang-en --with-lang-el --with-lang-nl
  • If you have homebrew installed to somewhere other than /usr/local (such as /opt/boxen/homebrew for Boxen users), you may have to simlink the library file like so:

sudo ln -s $(brew --prefix)/lib/libaspell.dylib /usr/local/lib/libaspell.dylib

Install the gem:

gem install ffi-aspell

Load it:

require 'ffi/aspell'

The primary class is FFI::Aspell::Speller, this class can be used to check for spelling errors and the likes:

speller = FFI::Aspell::Speller.new('en_US')

if speller.correct?('cookie')
  puts 'The word "cookie" is correct'
else
  puts 'The word "cookie" is incorrect'
end

speller.close

You can use Speller.open to avoid having to call #close explicitly:

FFI::Aspell::Speller.open('en_US') do |speller|
  puts speller.correct?('cookie')
end

For more information see the YARD documentation.

All source code in this repository is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0 unless stated otherwise. A copy of this license can be found the file "LICENSE" or at https://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.