From: Emmanuel Oga <emmanueloga@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T12:55:05+09:00
Subject: rubyforge web page search engine features

People:

I can't tell you how much I appreciate the significance of
http://rubyforge.org site. I'm very grateful to the kind people
maintaining it.

I have one concern, though... have you tried the search feature of the
site? It does not return very significant results. For example, I
searched "state machine" under software/groups category and a whole lot
(and I _mean_ a lot!) of non-relevant results appeared (try it if you
don't believe me :).

Is there anything I can do to improve this? I'm not sure of what's the
software powering rubyforge's. I have not much knowledge about search
engines, but I have successfully implemented the search feature in a
couple of rails applications using ferret and ultrasphinx, so I know
this could work a little better.

But! I have the suspect that a non-ruby application is powering
rubyforge right now.... after looking around for a while I haven't found
which software is running rubyforge. Is it opensource? Can we help
improving it?

Maybe this could be better implemented using a document-oriented
database approach, I'm not sure about this subject though as I have
never implemented such a system.

http://rddb.rubyforge.org/
http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/
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