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 It was mainly written as Raspell, a C binding for Aspell, is buggy and no longer maintained by the main author as of April 2012.

• FFI: gem install ffi
• Corresponding language packs. Without these the FFI binding will crash.
• Dutch and Greek language packs for Aspell (only when testing the code)

• Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S aspell
• OS X: (brew install aspell --lang=en

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 like:

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

For more information see the YARD documentation.

1. Make sure that Aspell and the English and Dutch dictionaries for it are installed as well. On Arch Linux this can be done by running sudo pacman -S aspell aspell-en aspell-nl.
2. Install the gems: bundle install
3. Run the tests to see if everything is working: rake test
4. Hack away!

• FFI functions go in FFI::Aspell
• Attached function names should resemble the C function names as much as possible.
• No more than 80 characters per line of code.
• Document your code, pull requests with big changes but without documentation will be rejected.
• Git commits should be signed off, this can be done by running git commit --sign. Commits that are not signed off will be rejected.
• Follow the Git commit standards are described here: http://ramaze.net/documentation/file.contributing.html#Commit_Messages.
• Test your code! Pull requests without tests will not be accepted.

The code in this repository is licensed under the MIT license. A copy of this license can be found in the file "LICENSE" in the root directory of this repository.