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Welcome to the Picky Wicky cough Wiki!

Picky is a really easy to use and fast Ruby search engine that helps your users find what they are looking for.

Where to go from here?

The official introductory page
FAQ
Google group (discussions)
Contributions and Contributors
Roadmap

Configuring the server

Indexing defines how data is indexed.
  Character Substitution replaces e.g. “ö” with “oe”.
Indexes hold the data.
  Sources tell Picky where to get the data.
  Categories categorize parts of the data.
Querying defines how to handle a query.
  Character Substitution replaces e.g. “ñ” with “n”.
Queries offer a search interface on indexes.
Routing maps URLs to queries.

Configuring the client

Note: For now, see the instructions at http://localhost:3000/configure in the scaffolding client.
The Rails/Sinatra etc. client
Client Configuration
JS Frontend Configuration

The results

Format and Structure of the Picky JSON.

Extending and contributing to Picky

Adding a Source of data.
Adding a Character Substituter that replaces single characters.

Performance Tips

Best Practices Setup
Indexing Performance