# Ruby-doc.org search for your browser toolbar **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 3, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-org-search-for-your-browser-toolbar/87501 "2007-03-03T03:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-org-search-for-your-browser-toolbar/87501/1 "2007-03-03T03:06:02Z")
Thanks to Greg Whiteley, [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) has a slick new feature. I recently changed the search function on the site. The search covers not just ruby-doc, but a number of other informative Ruby Web resources. That part is not new; I had been using Rollyo to handle the aggregated Web search. Now, though, the search is powered by Google’s custom search feature. It’s very, very nice (for one thing, search results are returned as a page in the [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) domain, rather than taking you off to some other site), but the query URLs are way fugly. To remedy this, I hacked up some mod\_rewrite magic, so that one can search with a clean URL, as in these examples: [Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language](http://www.ruby-doc.org/q/REXML) [Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language](http://www.ruby-doc.org/q/RJS+partials) Greg took this a step further and created a browser search toolbar auto-discovery file. Users of Firefox 2 and IE7 (and possibly others) who visit the site should now see the search toolbar icon (usually in the upper right of the browser) become highlighted. Clicking the icon will then give you the option of adding the [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) search to your search toolbar. Try it! – James B. [http://www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation [http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff [http://www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-org-search-for-your-browser-toolbar/87501/2 "2007-03-03T04:57:10Z")
On Mar 2, 2007, at 8:05 PM, James B. wrote: > Thanks to Greg Whiteley, [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) has a slick new feature. Forgive my subject change, but can I ask why the Core documentation now includes most of the standard library as well? I think this has hurt it’s browsibilty. James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-org-search-for-your-browser-toolbar/87501/3 "2007-03-03T07:27:16Z")
James Edward G. II wrote: > On Mar 2, 2007, at 8:05 PM, James B. wrote: > > > Thanks to Greg Whiteley, [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) has a slick new feature. > > Forgive my subject change, but can I ask why the Core documentation now > includes most of the standard library as well? I think this has hurt > it’s browsibilty. What’s there is simply the output of running rdoc over the main source, as has always been the case. There seem to have been changes in the source code or the .document files. I’d prefer to see no distinction at all, but have the docs be clear on whether a given class/module/method is built-in, or requires ‘requires’ on something, and so on. But, right now, the docs show, for example, YAML methods as being built into core classes, such as Array. So there is all sorts of confusion. However, this may be a topic better discussed on the ruby-core or ruby-doc lists. – James B. “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.” - A. Perlis ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 6:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-org-search-for-your-browser-toolbar/87501/4 "2007-03-04T06:28:29Z")
On 3/3/07, James B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > in these examples: > [Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language](http://www.ruby-doc.org/q/REXML) > [Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language](http://www.ruby-doc.org/q/RJS+partials) > Greg took this a step further and created a browser search toolbar > auto-discovery file. Users of Firefox 2 and IE7 (and possibly others) > who visit the site should now see the search toolbar icon (usually in > the upper right of the browser) become highlighted. > Clicking the icon will then give you the option of adding the > [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) search to your search toolbar. indeed. ruby-doc is getting better and better. great doc + great language = who could ask for more. many thanks to ruby-doc team! kind regards -botp ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-org-search-for-your-browser-toolbar/87501/5 "2007-03-03T16:44:11Z")
On 3/2/07, James B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Greg took this a step further and created a browser search toolbar > auto-discovery file. Users of Firefox 2 and IE7 (and possibly others) > who visit the site should now see the search toolbar icon (usually in > the upper right of the browser) become highlighted. > > Clicking the icon will then give you the option of adding the > [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) search to your search toolbar. Any chance that someone with the right mojo might help us poor beknighted souls still running Firefox 1.5 with a less automatic way to add it to the search engine list? – Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/)