# Double metaphone

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/double-metaphone/52976>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 22, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/double-metaphone/52976 "2006-01-22T04:28:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_Rush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Paul\_Rush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Paul_Rush)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/double-metaphone/52976/1 "2006-01-22T04:28:15Z")

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does anyone know if there is an implementation of the double metaphone  
algorithm available in ruby? google searching turns up very little of  
interest.

if not, i’d be happy to port the jakarta commons version and make it  
available.

cheers,  
paul