# Serch in blog - What is the best method

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 2, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754 "2007-06-02T04:54:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raj_ma)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754/1 "2007-06-02T04:54:06Z")

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Hi,

I am completly new to rail and developing a blog, was just interested in  
knowing what is the best method to implement search to search my blogs.

Thank you,  
Raj.

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**Author:** ![raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raj_ma)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 10:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754/2 "2007-06-02T10:50:16Z")

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Ravindraraj M. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am completly new to rail and developing a blog, was just interested in  
> knowing what is the best method to implement search to search my blogs.
> 
> Thank you,  
> Raj.

What do you mean the best method?

Most Blogs let you search in the title and description 🙂

That most be the best thing to let the visitors do 🙂

and then your Visitoris can click on categories and archive list 🙂

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**Author:** ![raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raj_ma)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754/3 "2007-06-02T11:21:18Z")

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If you are ‘completely new’, pick up a book or read some tutorials more.

Secondly, Ferret (and acts\_as\_ferret) are a nice solution or http://

> **[\#37 Simple Search Form - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/37-simple-search-form)**
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**Author:** ![raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raj_ma)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754/4 "2007-06-04T05:09:28Z")

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Dint find any thing related to search.

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**Author:** ![raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raj_ma)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754/5 "2007-06-04T05:08:41Z")

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I was asking about the implementaiton part of the serach. Methods to  
search tittle and description and displaying the results depend up on  
the dependencies all that.

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**Author:** ![raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raj_ma)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754/6 "2007-06-04T05:39:33Z")

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> I was asking about the implementaiton part of the…  
> no way.

> Dint find any thing related to search.  
> certainly, you’ve been searching wrong internet.

On Jun 4, 6:09 am, Ravindraraj M. \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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**Author:** ![raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raj_ma)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754/7 "2007-06-04T21:55:03Z")

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Was looking for some thing like this

[http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/johnny/2006/08/27/ruby-on-rails-using-full-text-search-with-tagging/](http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/johnny/2006/08/27/ruby-on-rails-using-full-text-search-with-tagging/)

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@raj\_ma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raj_ma)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serch-in-blog-what-is-the-best-method/105754/8 "2007-06-04T05:56:54Z")

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I am not looking for code but good methodologies…
