From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2007-03-04T14:27:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby-doc.org search for your browser toolbar

On 3/3/07, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

indeed. ruby-doc is getting better and better. great doc + great
language = who could ask for more. many thanks to ruby-doc team!

kind regards -botp