What a simple and beautiful idea and a delightful outcome! I think you should do Rubstep next.

Great suggestion.  I'll think of how I could possibly work that in.

My favorite:

Young carers need more support
Green light for £100m golf resort

Love its simplicity although I'm not regular ruby programmer.

Nice idea, very interesting.

You may want to check yet another "rhymes provider" in form of a gem - https://rubygems.org/gems/r...

Nice work, Andrew.

If you do end up digging into the rhyme stuff more, you may be interested in my rhyme webservice:

arpabet.heroku.com
github.com/zeke/arpabet

Thanks. I hadn't come across Arpabet transcriptions. I like the web service you built.

Allowed myself to write some documentation for your code, and separate code from data. See if you like the outcome: https://github.com/spier/ru...

Thanks. I'll probably merge most of that in.

Btw I think you meant to link to this at the end of your post:http://rubygolf-presentatio...

Good spot. Thanks.  I must have dropped the http://
I've fixed it now.

This made me smile :) Thanks for sharing.

You should investigate more algorithms for finding words that rhyme. Some possibilities include: double metaphone, soundex and NYSIIS.

I wrote the code about five years ago, and when I was writing the talk, I considered improving it.  I played around with soundex and double metaphone, but in the end, decided that given it was only a 5 minute talk, I wouldn't go beyond what I wrote 5 years ago.  I'll certainly consider revisiting it and making the algorithm better, although I quite like the idea of crowdsourcing the best couplet selection instead, which would help pick out not only the ones that rhyme, but also the funniest or most ironic couplet.

 I heard about code poetry but generative poetry is nice too!

Impressive.  <3 the Ruby :)