From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2011-04-26T03:03:38+09:00
Subject: [ANN] whistlepig: real-time search for ruby

Hi all,

I've released Whistlepig 0.5.

Whistlepig is a minimalist realtime full-text search index. Its goal is
to be as small and feature-free as possible, while still remaining
useful, performant and scalable to large corpora. If you want realtime
full-text search without the frills, Whistlepig may be for you.

Whistlepig is written in ANSI C99. It currently provides a C API and
Ruby bindings.

More:

  http://masanjin.net/whistlepig/

Synopsis:

  require 'rubygems'
  require 'whistlepig'

  include Whistlepig

  index = Index.new "index"

  ## adding a document is easy
  entry1 = Entry.new
  entry1.add_string "body", "hello there bob"
  docid1 = index.add_entry entry1              # => 1

  ## let's add another one
  entry2 = Entry.new
  entry2.add_string "body", "goodbye bob"
  docid2 = index.add_entry entry2              # => 2

  ## documents are immediately available for search
  q1 = Query.new "body", "bob"
  results1 = index.search q1                   # => [2, 1]

  ## queries can be constructed programmatically
  q2 = q1.and Query.new("body", "hello")
  results2 = index.search q2                   # => [1]

  ## you can add labels to documents
  index.add_label docid2, "funny"

  ## labels can be mixed into queries with the ~ operator
  q3 = Query.new "body", "bob ~funny"
  results3 = index.search q3                   # => [2]

  ## you can have arbitrary fields!
  entry3 = Entry.new
  entry3.add_string "body", "hello joe"
  entry3.add_string "subject", "what do you know?"
  docid3 = index.add_entry entry3              # => 3

  ## fielded search uses a :
  q4 = Query.new "body", "subject:know hello"
  results4 = index.search q4                   # => [3]

  ## and there's much much more...

I'm using it to implement a gmail-like email server.
(https://github.com/wmorgan/heliotrope). It might be useful to you too.
-- 
William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>