# Cities spell checker **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cities-spell-checker/190490 "2010-06-21T13:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cities-spell-checker/190490/1 "2010-06-21T13:58:48Z")
I’m totally lost with this feature so I wanted to ask to the community for some links in order to implement this feature I’m trying to make a city spell checker (actually a spell checker that will work for anything at all that I have in the database) So I.e. if I have in my database these two cities: hollywood bollywood and the user writes and submit: collywood I want to show him something like? Did you wanted to say any of these? hollywood bollywood Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you ---
**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cities-spell-checker/190490/2 "2010-06-21T14:05:53Z")
try auto complete that may help full for user . something llike this [GitHub - rails/auto\_complete: NOTICE: official repository moved to https://github.com/david-kerins/auto\_complete](http://github.com/rails/auto_complete) On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Rodrigo D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > To post to this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > . > For more options, visit this group at > [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en). – Thanks: Rajeev sharma ---
**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cities-spell-checker/190490/3 "2010-06-21T14:13:07Z")
Hi, thanks for the tip, but I already have implemented the autocomplete for that field However, my client asked me to let the user to go on without selecting a city from the autocomplete, and if that happens, then show him a screen with possible matches for what he wrote, so I’m trying to know what the people use for doing that Thank you kannav rajeev wrote: > try auto complete that may help full for user . > something llike this [GitHub - rails/auto\_complete: NOTICE: official repository moved to https://github.com/david-kerins/auto\_complete](http://github.com/rails/auto_complete) > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Rodrigo D. > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > > > To post to this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en). > > – > Thanks: > Rajeev sharma ---
**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cities-spell-checker/190490/4 "2010-06-21T14:55:39Z")
On Jun 21, 1:13 pm, Rodrigo D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, thanks for the tip, but I already have implemented the autocomplete > for that field > > However, my client asked me to let the user to go on without selecting a > city from the autocomplete, and if that happens, then show him a screen > with possible matches for what he wrote, so I’m trying to know what the > people use for doing that I once did something similar using raspell (ruby bindings for aspell). You can supply custom dictionaries, one containing just the list of cities you know about should do the trick Fred ---
**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cities-spell-checker/190490/5 "2010-06-22T00:15:56Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On Jun 21, 1:13�pm, Rodrigo D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Hi, thanks for the tip, but I already have implemented the autocomplete > > for that field > > > > However, my client asked me to let the user to go on without selecting a > > city from the autocomplete, and if that happens, then show him a screen > > with possible matches for what he wrote, so I’m trying to know what the > > people use for doing that > > I once did something similar using raspell (ruby bindings for aspell). > You can supply custom dictionaries, one containing just the list of > cities you know about should do the trick > > Fred > Great, now I know what to implement in order to implement this feature Thank you so much 🙂