Forgiving ruby

sometimes when you write in ruby fast enough you may miss some character, maybe miss write a character or something, i thought that there is a way we can make ruby more forgiving toward your writing mistakes
it is easy we'll monkey patch the Object class to respond to methods that doesn't exists but there is another method that is quite like it.

Gist : https://gist.github.com/11158374

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Author : Emad Elsaid (https://github.com/blazeeboy)

# monkey batch, yup that a bad practice,
# but lets say that this is a proof of concept
# 
# we'll open the object class and handle the 
# method missing situation, we'll claculate
# distance between the requested method and 
# all methods available in object, then the nearest
# method if distance doesn't exceed certain number
# then execute it.
class Object
  def method_missing(meth, *args, &block)
    threshold = 3
    all_meth = methods.sort
    all_meth.sort_by! do |m| 
      string_distance m, meth
    end
    if string_distance(all_meth.first, meth) <= 3
      send all_meth.first, *args, &block
    else
      super
    end
  end

  # we'll calculate distance between 2 string by
  # getting number of characters in 1 and not in 2
  # and number chars in 2 not in 1, sum the two
  # differences and return that weight
  # less weight is more similar method
  def string_distance(str1, str2)
    one_way = str1.to_s.chars - str2.to_s.chars 
    the_other_way = str2.to_s.chars - str1.to_s.chars 
    one_way.size + the_other_way.size
  end
end

# ## UseCase ?
# you can use `nil` instead of `nil?`
p "26512135".nil
# you can use `toi` and `tof` instead of `to_i` and `to_f`
p "12123".tof

# this way ruby will be more forgiving if you wrote
# method name with wrong character or less character or more 
# with 1 character, when you increate the `threshold` it'll
# be more forgiving :D, 
# 
# happy coding.