Cities spell checker

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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

[Rajeev_Kannav_Sharma]

try auto complete that may help full for user .
something llike this http://github.com/rails/auto_complete

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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:

[Frederick_Cheung]

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

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Frederick Cheung wrote: