IndexedSearchEngine is a simple, pluggable engine for rails applications which can be used to enable full text indexed searches within an application.

The author of the Engine says that Ferret (a port of the Apache-Lucene java project and one of the most requested libraries for ruby) is almost certainly faster but he believes that IndexedSearchEngine is easier to use, however.

Searchable data is parsed, stemmed using the Porter stemmer, and added to a fully indexed table. This allows you to index things like "he runs fast" which will be returned from a search for "running".


There are some basic examples of usage in the home page about:
- Views and Stylesheets
- how to add to the search index
- how to Update a search index record

You can download the sample application if you want to see how things works.

This package is developed using the Engines plugin. For infos about how to use engines: rails-engines.rubyforge.org.

Home Page: http://langwell-ball.com:2505/indexedsearch/show/HomePage