levenshtein-c
Standard native C levenshtein implementation (inspired by Schuyler'gem) with unicode support, better re-use of MRI 1.9 structs and much faster than the ffi based spawn.
Time: O(n²) Space: O(n)
Installation
gem install levenshtein-c
Example
require 'levenshtein-c.so'
Levenshtein.distance("helloworld", "hello")