Building a Search Engine in 200ish Lines of Ruby

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Fri, 03/20/2009 - 05:34

somesearchthing.jpegSau Sheong Chang works for Yahoo! in their Sinagapore office.

Yahoo! isn't implemented in Ruby, of course, but Sau's made an attempt at implementing a basic search engine in Ruby and has written a pretty interesting, indepth article about the whole process .

Sau's search engine is formed of a crawler, indexer, and query system, and uses Hpricot , DataMapper , and Sinatra to get things done.

Lots of code, lots of explanations - go read...

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