Ruby compare two strings similarity percentage

Question

Id like to compare two strings in Ruby and find their similarity

I\'ve had a look at the Levenshtein gem but it seems this was last updated in 2008 and

Answer 1

I can recommend the fuzzy-string-match gem.

You can use it like this (taken from the docs):

require "fuzzystringmatch"
jarow = FuzzyStringMatch::JaroWinkler.create(:native)
p jarow.getDistance("jones", "johnson")

It will return a score ~0.832 which tells how good those strings match.