Fall back to pure ruby implementation on LoadError

tonytonyjan · Jun 13, 2019 · 49f811e · 49f811e
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diff --git a/lib/jaro_winkler.rb b/lib/jaro_winkler.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,13 @@
 require 'jaro_winkler/version'
 
 if RUBY_ENGINE == 'ruby'
-  require 'jaro_winkler/jaro_winkler_ext'
+  begin
+    require 'jaro_winkler/jaro_winkler_ext'
+  rescue LoadError
+    # Fall back to the pure implementation if the extension
+    # can't be loaded for any reason (e.g. it was never built)
+    require 'jaro_winkler/jaro_winkler_pure'
+  end
 else
   require 'jaro_winkler/jaro_winkler_pure'
 end