Projects

arson

A CLI Ruby application designed for the easy searching of packages in Arch Linux's User Repository (AUR). Also supports downloading those found packages as well as finding upgrades of locally installed programs in the AUR.

ferret

Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in C. It has complete Ruby bindings and C++ bindings are in the works. Ferret was inspired by the Apache Lucene project.

Alexandria

Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book collection.

Blacklight

A next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as the underlying search engine. All you have to do is export your marc records, index them with the scripts provided, start up ruby on rails, and you're on your way to faceted browsing bliss.

Sunspot

Sunspot is a Ruby library for expressive, powerful interaction with the Solr search engine. Sunspot is built on top of the RSolr library, which provides a low-level interface for Solr interaction; Sunspot provides a simple, intuitive, expressive DSL backed by powerful features for indexing objects ... [More] and searching for them. Sunspot is designed to be easily plugged in to any ORM, or even non-database-backed objects such as the filesystem. [Less]

twitter gem

A Ruby wrapper for the Twitter REST and Search APIs

gonzui

gonzui is a source code search engine for accelerating open source software development. In the open source software development, programmers frequently refer to source codes written by others. Our goal is to help programmers develop programs effectively by creating a source code search engine that ... [More] covers vast quantities of open source codes available on the Internet. [Less]

RDig

Crawler and content extractor for building a full text index of a website's contents. Uses Ferret for indexing.

acts-as-tsearch

Acts_as_tsearch is a plugin for Ruby on Rails which makes it simple to implement scalable, full text search for Rails if you're using PostgreSQL as your database. It wraps the built-in full text search engine of PostgreSQL with a familiar 'acts_as' implementation. The primary author ... [More] Ben Wiseley of ActiveRain explains their motivation: While scalability problems with acts_as_ferret (likely through our own ignorance) led us to develop this we'd love to thank acts_as_ferret for providing an excellent model on how to do as acts_as_search plugin for Rails and getting us very quickly through our first few months. Their search solution is definitely worth looking at and is much more robust. Where to start?Prepare your PostgreSQL database Follow the quick start Read up advanced acts_as_tsearch declarations multi-vector-searching Migrations how to migrate your search indexes Testing explains how to get unit tests working Stuck? Ask questions on acts_as_tsearch Sampleclass BlogEntry < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tsearch :fields => ['title','description'] end BlogEntry.find_by_tsearch('who what where') [Less]

twitterspy

TwitterSpy is a supplemental bot for twitter that does the stuff the twitter one used to do, and a few things it doesn't. IM xmpp:im@twitterspy.org for more info.