title: Simple spell check method/gem in ruby?
body: <p>I am looking for a relatively quick way to check whether words are misspelled, either using a gem or API. </p>
  
  <p>I've tried using several gems -- raspell, ffi-aspell, hunspell-ffi, spell_cheker, and spellchecker -- and each has a different error. </p>
  
  <p>I'm pretty new to ruby and hoping for a simple solution (I'm processing a lot of short text files and want to calculate the % of words mis-spelled) that doesn't include building something from scratch.</p>
  
  <p>When trying ffi-aspell, I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Users/ntaylorthompson/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/ffi-aspell-0.0.3/lib/ffi/aspell/speller.rb:121: [BUG] Segmentation fault
  ruby 1.9.2p320 (2012-04-20 revision 35421) [x86_64-darwin11.4.0]
  
  -- control frame ----------
  c:0005 p:---- s:0019 b:0019 l:000018 d:000018 CFUNC  :speller_check
  c:0004 p:0113 s:0013 b:0013 l:000012 d:000012 METHOD /Users/ntaylorthompson/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/ffi-aspell-0.0.3/lib/ffi/aspell/speller.rb:121
  c:0003 p:0049 s:0007 b:0007 l:0005a8 d:0005d0 EVAL   ffi-aspell_test.rb:5
  c:0002 p:---- s:0004 b:0004 l:000003 d:000003 FINISH
  c:0001 p:0000 s:0002 b:0002 l:0005a8 d:0005a8 TOP   
  ---------------------------
  -- Ruby level backtrace information ----------------------------------------
  ffi-aspell_test.rb:5:in `&lt;main&gt;'
  /Users/ntaylorthompson/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/ffi-aspell-0.0.3/lib/ffi/aspell/speller.rb:121:in `correct?'
  /Users/ntaylorthompson/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/ffi-aspell-0.0.3/lib/ffi/aspell/speller.rb:121:in `speller_check'
  
  -- C level backtrace information -------------------------------------------
  
  [NOTE]
  You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries.
  Bug reports are welcome.
  For details: http://www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html
  
  Abort trap: 6
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'd appreciate either (1) a suggestion of an alternative approach to those above or (2) a recommendation of which to use of the 5 gems above -- so I can at least spend time debugging the best option. </p>