Ever gone looking for some insight into your latest rails conundrum and ended up finding answers for the wrong language that mention ruby elsewhere in the page? I know I have.
Here's an interesting new beta project from google launched today, which allows you to create custom search engines which focus on a given topic area by customising which sites are indexed as part of the search.
I think that this could be really useful for targeted searches as it can cut out a lot of the "spam" and other less relevant sites from the search results. Also while you can get the same effect by using the site: parameter, doing that about 20 or 30 times per search doesn't really appeal.
So here's a Ruby on rails Search. At the moment it's based on some sites which I use (list below), but if there are other ones that anyone would like to see include just leave a comment, or volunteer to help out on the search engine front page.
edit: Looks like quite a few people in the RoR community had this idea.... so rather than have lots of different searches doing the same thing I've removed my one.
But if you're looking for a RoR search engine head over here to the Ruby Inside Search Engine
Site Listing
http://www.rubyforge.org/
http://www.ryandaigle.com/
http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/
http://www.loudthinking.com/
http://www.slash7.com/
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/
http://www.rubyonrailsforum.com/
http://www.ruby-forum.com/
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/tags/rails
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
http://www.37signals.com/
http://www.rubyonrails.com/
http://blog.t0fuu.com/
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/
http://www.railtie.net/
http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/
http://cardboardrocket.com/
http://www.danwebb.net/
http://mephistoblog.com/
http://curthibbs.wordpress.com/
http://www.softiesonrails.com/
http://nubyonrails.com/
http://www.rubyinside.com/
http://www.height1percent.com/
http://www.straw-dogs.co.uk/blog/