Help with Ruby to program search on website

[Dazman]

Hi all,

I'm working on a project to use ruby as the programming language for my website's search engine. I love the language, but I'm stumped as to how I can implement it as a search application. Can anyone give me tips or pointers on how to get this off the ground and running.

Thanks in advance,

Darren.

[vgarcia]

Are you searching a database or files? If it's a database and you're using Rails, then the Search Generator can ease your pain

[ezmobius1]

You can also use ferret which is a ruby port of Java's Lucene indexing search platform. Its actaully really nice. Works with plain text files or a database:

http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/

-Ezra

[Dazman]

Thanks for the replies. I'm searching files on the website. I want to keep it as simple as possible, though a search engine by definition is not all that simple...so I'm finding out.