Using Google spell checker via Googiespell and your rails proxy

paulcowles — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:43:25 +0000

If you are using Googiespell with rails, you may notice that Alex MacCaw’s Ruby on Rails hack from the documentation page no longer works. Google now requires a SSL connection to the spell service. You’ll be able to get it working by changing your proxy to:

def googiespell
  @lang = params['lang'] || 'en'
  @payload = request.raw_post
  http = Net::HTTP.new('google.com', 443)
  http.use_ssl = true
  path = "/tbproxy/spell?lang=" + @lang
  response = http.post(path, @payload)
  render :xml => response.body
end

Does anyone know of a Jquery plugin that could be used in place of Googiespell?

Paul Cowles » google

Using Google spell checker via Googiespell and your rails proxy