Hot on the heels of the last post comes a new feature to Ruby Inside.. a Ruby and Rails search engine powered by Google. It’s on the front page here at Ruby Inside (link for those reading via RSS) and lets you search a bumper collection of Ruby and Rails sites in one go.
If you search for ‘Integer’ you get the Ruby class references, rather than the Java and Wikipedia links you get with Google.com, and you can use it as a quick, reliable way to pin down the Ruby information you need. So far there are 23 sites in the search engine, including the main reference sites, the Rails forum, and several key weblogs, but I’m adding more sites over time. Read More

Ruby Search, a project by Simon Parker, is a special Web search tool that looks through the Rails class index, Rails methods, Ruby standard libraries, and Programming Ruby and presents the results in a simple sidebar to be viewed in a frame on the right. It seems to be a bit patchy from my tests, but it’s still a cool tool. (Found via ozmm) Read More