# ':' search Bug?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-bug/81805>\
**Category:** Ruby-Forum\
**Created:** [January 14, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-bug/81805 "2007-01-14T21:10:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![josephholsten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@josephholsten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josephholsten)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-bug/81805/1 "2007-01-14T21:10:58Z")

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Can anyone speak to whether something like  
[http://www.ruby-forum.com/search?query=%3A](http://www.ruby-forum.com/search?query=%3A)  
results in an application error?

=josephholsten

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**Author:** ![josephholsten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@josephholsten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josephholsten)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-bug/81805/2 "2007-01-15T03:57:53Z")

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Joseph Holsten wrote:

> Can anyone speak to whether something like  
> [Search results for '' - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/search?query=%3A)  
> results in an application error?

Yes. I get an application error at that url and the following in one of  
my applications.

Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException in EventsController#search

Error occured in src/q\_parser.y:279 - yyerror  
couldn’t parse query ``:‘’. Error message was syntax error

Ray