From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2003-10-19T06:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: rubylucene - new & improved

Erik Hatcher wrote:
> I had the pleasure of working with Rich Kilmer for a bit last weekend 
> and he helped me clean up my newbie Ruby directory structure and get 
> things tidy.  I've checked in my stuff at RubyForge under rubylucene 
> (was previously rucene, which is now deprecated and will be removed soon):
> 
>     http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubylucene/
> 
> While I don't anticipate spending much time on this in the next few 
> months, I do want to work on it and see a full-fledged Ruby version of 
> Lucene.  I'd love to have others join in the fun!

Wondering (as I was) what 'rubylucene' and 'Lucene" are?

 From the Lucene RubyForge summary page:

"This project aims to implement a Ruby version of the popular Lucene 
search engine"

You can read about a Lucene at

http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene

"Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine 
written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any 
application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. "



James