On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Emmanuel Oga wrote:

> People:
>
> I can't tell you how much I appreciate the significance of
> http://rubyforge.org site. I'm very grateful to the kind people
> maintaining it.
>
> I have one concern, though... have you tried the search feature of the
> site? It does not return very significant results. For example, I
> searched "state machine" under software/groups category and a whole  
> lot
> (and I _mean_ a lot!) of non-relevant results appeared (try it if you
> don't believe me :).
>
> Is there anything I can do to improve this? I'm not sure of what's the
> software powering rubyforge's. I have not much knowledge about search
> engines, but I have successfully implemented the search feature in a
> couple of rails applications using ferret and ultrasphinx, so I know
> this could work a little better.
>
> But! I have the suspect that a non-ruby application is powering
> rubyforge right now.... after looking around for a while I haven't  
> found
> which software is running rubyforge. Is it opensource? Can we help
> improving it?

Yup, it's GForge - http://gforge.org/ - and I think it's basically  
using the SQL LIKE keyword to drive the searches :-) .    There have  
been some discussions about moving away from GForge, but migrating the  
current data is a bit of a sticky wicket.  To be fair to GForge, we're  
using a rather old version of it - the newer versions are probably  
better.

Yours,

Tom