# Already existing "local google search" project using Rails and Ferret?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/already-existing-local-google-search-project-using-rails-and-ferret/118841>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 31, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/already-existing-local-google-search-project-using-rails-and-ferret/118841 "2007-10-31T15:28:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/already-existing-local-google-search-project-using-rails-and-ferret/118841/1 "2007-10-31T15:28:41Z")

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Hi everybody!

I’d like to setup a “local google search” at work:

- users would put data in shared directories on a samba server,  
without really caring about folder structure
- ferret would index those directories every n hours
- users could still get access to those data via samba
- but in order to find them easily, some rails app would be used as a  
front-end to show the most relevant matches for a given user query.

So, here is my question:

Do you know any FOSS project that could suit my need?  
Am I trying to reinvent the wheel?

Thanks,

Eric