From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-03-03T11:05:08+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby-doc.org search for your browser toolbar

Thanks to Greg Whiteley, ruby-doc.org has a slick new feature.

I recently changed the search function on the site.  The search covers 
not just ruby-doc, but a number of other informative Ruby Web resources. 
  That part is not new; I had been using Rollyo to handle the aggregated 
Web search.

Now, though, the search is powered by Google's custom search feature. 
It's very, very nice (for one thing, search results are returned as a 
page in the ruby-doc.org domain, rather than taking you off to some 
other site), but the query URLs are way fugly.  To remedy this, I hacked 
up some mod_rewrite magic, so that one can search with a clean URL, as 
in these examples:

   http://www.ruby-doc.org/q/REXML
   http://www.ruby-doc.org/q/RJS+partials

Greg took this a step further and created a browser search toolbar 
auto-discovery file.  Users of Firefox 2 and IE7 (and possibly others) 
who visit the site should now see the search toolbar icon (usually in 
the upper right of the browser) become highlighted.

Clicking the icon will then give you the option of adding the 
ruby-doc.org search to your search toolbar.

Try it!

-- 
James Britt

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