From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T00:00:20+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyforge web page search engine features


On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Emmanuel Oga wrote:

> Tom Copeland wrote:
>> Yup, it's GForge - http://gforge.org/ - and I think it's basically
>> using the SQL LIKE keyword to drive the searches :-) .    There have
>> been some discussions about moving away from GForge, but migrating  
>> the
>> current data is a bit of a sticky wicket.  To be fair to GForge,  
>> we're
>> using a rather old version of it - the newer versions are probably
>> better.
>
> Ah! probably php... :)

Right on, yup, it's in PHP.

> Is there any ruby alternative suitable for the
> job?

redmine seems to be the leader at the moment.  But the sticky bit is  
moving the data over, I think...

> If not, is there any way we could help to make the update to a
> newer gforge version happen?

I just need to set aside some time to try it out.  Doing a GForge  
upgrade involves running a lot of migrations (more or less), so I want  
to make sure nothing breaks horribly...

Yours,

Tom