About iSearch

iSearch is primarily a tool for developers. It allows them to quickly browse through reference material about technologies on the web. iSearch is written and maintained by Damien Merenne.

I created iSearch because I was fed up having to look through 100 references in some documentation index to lookup a function or a command. I needed something like Google "I Feel Lucky", but with a less fuzzy approach. I needed to be sure to be taken to the right page when looking for "javascript string"

Technologies behind iSearch

iSearch is based on the Ruby on Rails framework. The searching feature is provided by Ferret, a Lucene port for the Ruby language.

This site makes use of several plugins:

• acts_as_ferret
• assert_select
• rails_rcov