Comments on: Approximate string matching metrics with amatch http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:12:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: biorelated http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/#comment-163 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:54:49 +0000 http://biorelated.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-163 As i had noted ealier i was not able to install the gem on a windows OS using ruby 1.8.6 at the time. Sorry i never explored the cause of the issue but i bet it has to do with the build and make programs needed to compile the source for windows natively. For now i would urge you to try it on a Unix/Linux system. Windows and DOS are not good systems for this kind of stuff.

]]> By: leo http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/#comment-162 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:21:34 +0000 http://biorelated.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-162 I have a windows XP, and I just installed gnuwin32 make app but I was not able to install the gem. this is what I got:
F:\Program Files\Ruby191\bin>gem install amatch
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing amatch:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

“F:/Program Files/Ruby191/bin/ruby.exe” extconf.rb
creating Makefile

make
makefile:154: warning: overriding commands for target `F:/Program’
makefile:148: warning: ignoring old commands for target `F:/Program’
make: *** No rule to make target `”/F/Program’, needed by `amatch.o’. Stop.

Gem files will remain installed in F:/Program Files/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/
r inspection.
Results logged to F:/Program Files/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/amatch-0.2.5

F:\Program Files\Ruby191\bin>

any idea?

]]> By: Marwa http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/#comment-143 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:24:00 +0000 http://biorelated.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-143 It’s required from me to implement a simple spell checker
using both algorithms (longest common subsequence & edit distance).
So, what i asked for is how i can use both of them to get
an optimized solution.

]]> By: biorelated http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/#comment-131 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:53:11 +0000 http://biorelated.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-131 Also you might want to look at searchlogic gem (http://github.com/binarylogic/searchlogic) It might be more appropriate in your case.

]]> By: John http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/#comment-130 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:46:58 +0000 http://biorelated.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-130 Thank you for the reply.
I’m sorry for being unclear as I’m a Rails beginner.
Yes, I’m using the ActiveRecord finder method. I have a search field that searches by project name. Well, the stored project name can be very long. It’s almost like a keyword search. (whoa)
I think I just had an idea. I’m going to pursue that avenue.
Thanks again.

]]> By: biorelated http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/#comment-129 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:03:39 +0000 http://biorelated.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-129 Hi,
Do you mean adding it to an activerecord finder method in rails? or which find method?

]]> By: John McLeod http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/#comment-128 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:09:41 +0000 http://biorelated.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-128 Hello,
Just a question, how could I add ‘amatch’ to a standard find method?
Thanks for any help.
John

]]> By: Rob Syme http://biorelated.com/2009/01/06/approximate-string-matching-metrics-with-amatch/#comment-104 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:27:50 +0000 http://biorelated.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-104 Just what I needed, thanks for the tip!

I don’t think that Bio::Sequence objects have a ‘to_seq’ method, but they do have a ‘seq’ method :)
-r

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