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The gem that has been saving people from typos since 2014

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The gem that has been saving people from typos since 2014

did_you_mean

Installation

Ruby 2.3 and later ships with this gem and it will automatically be required when a Ruby process starts up. No special setup is required.

Examples

NameError

Correcting a Misspelled Method Name

ruby
methosd
# => NameError: undefined local variable or method `methosd' for main:Object
#    Did you mean?  methods
#                   method

Correcting a Misspelled Class Name

ruby
OBject
# => NameError: uninitialized constant OBject
#    Did you mean?  Object

Suggesting an Instance Variable Name

ruby
@full_name = "Yuki Nishijima"
first_name, last_name = full_name.split(" ")
# => NameError: undefined local variable or method `full_name' for main:Object
#    Did you mean?  @full_name

Correcting a Class Variable Name

ruby
@@full_name = "Yuki Nishijima"
@@full_anme
# => NameError: uninitialized class variable @@full_anme in Object
#    Did you mean?  @@full_name

NoMethodError

ruby
full_name = "Yuki Nishijima"
full_name.starts_with?("Y")
# => NoMethodError: undefined method `starts_with?' for "Yuki Nishijima":String
#    Did you mean?  start_with?

KeyError

ruby
hash = {foo: 1, bar: 2, baz: 3}
hash.fetch(:fooo)
# => KeyError: key not found: :fooo
#    Did you mean?  :foo

LoadError

ruby
require 'net-http'
# => LoadError (cannot load such file -- net-http)
#    Did you mean?  net/http

NoMatchingPatternKeyError

ruby
hash = {foo: 1, bar: 2, baz: 3}
hash => {fooo:}
# => NoMatchingPatternKeyError: key not found: :fooo
#    Did you mean?  :foo

Using the DidYouMean::SpellChecker

If you need to programmatically find the closest matches to the user input, you could do so by re-using the DidYouMean::SpellChecker object.

ruby
spell_checker = DidYouMean::SpellChecker.new(dictionary: ['email', 'fail', 'eval'])

spell_checker.correct('meail') # => ['email']
spell_checker.correct('afil')  # => ['fail']

Disabling did_you_mean

Occasionally, you may want to disable the did_you_mean gem for e.g. debugging issues in the error object itself. You can disable it entirely by specifying --disable-did_you_mean option to the ruby command:

bash
$ ruby --disable-did_you_mean -e "1.zeor?"
-e:1:in `<main>': undefined method `zeor?' for 1:Integer (NameError)

When you do not have direct access to the ruby command (e.g. rails console, irb), you could apply options using the RUBYOPT environment variable:

bash
$ RUBYOPT='--disable-did_you_mean' irb
irb:0> 1.zeor?
# => NoMethodError (undefined method `zeor?' for 1:Integer)

Getting the original error message

Sometimes, you do not want to disable the gem entirely, but need to get the original error message without suggestions (e.g. testing). In this case, you could use the #original_message method on the error object:

ruby
no_method_error = begin
                    1.zeor?
                  rescue NoMethodError => error
                    error
                  end

no_method_error.message
# => NoMethodError (undefined method `zeor?' for 1:Integer)
#    Did you mean?  zero?

no_method_error.original_message
# => NoMethodError (undefined method `zeor?' for 1:Integer)

Benchmarking

Performance is very important as the did_you_mean gem attempts to find the closest matches on the fly right after an exception is thrown. You could use the following rake tasks to get insights into how the gem performs:

bash
bundle exec rake benchmark:ips:jaro
bundle exec rake benchmark:ips:levenshtein
bundle exec rake benchmark:memory
bundle exec rake benchmark:memory:jaro
bundle exec rake benchmark:memory:levenshtein

Be sure to always use bundle exec otherwise it will activate the pre-installed version of the did_you_mean gem rather than using what's in the lib/.

You could also use the benchmark-driver gem to know how each Ruby performs differently.

bash
bundle exec benchmark-driver benchmark/speed.yml --rbenv '2.6.0 --jit;2.6.0;2.5.3;truffleruby-1.0.0-rc10' --run-duration 30

Contributing

  1. Fork it (https://github.com/ruby/did_you_mean/fork)
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Make sure all tests pass (bundle exec rake)
  5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  6. Create new Pull Request

License

Copyright (c) 2014-16 Yuki Nishijima. See MIT-LICENSE for further details.

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PublishedAug 1, 2026
UpdatedSep 17, 2026
Category编程语言
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