# Levenshteinish An *average distance* implementation of the [hintable_levenshtein](https://github.com/joshbuddy/hintable_levenshtein) gem. ## How to use ```` ruby Levenshtein.distance("first", "last") # => 0.6 ```` The `distance` method returns a value between `0.0` and `1.0`, where `0.0` is spot on. ## How do install [sudo] gem install levenshteinish ## Requirements *Levenshteinish* is tested on *OS X 10.6.7* using Ruby *1.8.7*, *1.9.2*. ## License *Levenshteinish* is released under the *MIT license*.