Please note: since January 2022, this demo is now hosted at https://github.com/meilisearch/demos/tree/main/src/finding-rubygems

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MeiliSearch finds RubyGems

A new experience of search to find your favorite RubyGems 🎉

Search by gem name or by keywords.

The search is powered by MeiliSearch, the open-source and instant search engine.

See also

• MeiliSearch finds PyPI packages (Python)
• MeiliSearch finds Crates (Rust)

This project uses the Ruby SDK for MeiliSearch.

How to run the data collector

Set the following environment variables:

• MEILISEARCH_HOST_URL
• MEILISEARCH_API_KEY

Run:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec ruby meilisearch/app.rb

MeiliSearch settings

require 'meilisearch'

...

settings = {
  rankingRules: [
    'typo',
    'words',
    'desc(fame)',
    'proximity',
    'attribute',
    'exactness',
    'desc(total_downloads)',
  ],
  searchableAttributes: [
    'name',
    'summary'
  ],
  displayedAttributes: [
    'name',
    'summary',
    'description',
    'version',
    'total_downloads'
  ]
}

client = MeiliSearch::Client.new(URL, API_KEY)
client.index(index_uid).update_settings(settings)

Details

The front is deployed to GitHub Pages.

All gems data and main of HTML/CSS come from RubyGems website.

The script to fetch data and push them to MeiliSearch runs every day on Heroku with to Heroku Scheduler.

Here is the repository of MeiliSearch.