Search::Sniffer

Simple plugin to sniff inbound search terms from popular search engines

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'search-sniffer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install search-sniffer

Usage

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :sniff_referring_search
  ...
end

The plugin populates the @@referring_search@ object containing info that can be passed to a keyword highlighter or internal site search engine to pull related content. For an HTTP referer of @http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+on+rails+houston&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a@@

@referring_search.search_terms
 => "ruby rails houston"
@referring_search.raw
 => "ruby on rails houston"
@referring_search.engine
 => "google"

Copyright (c) 2008 Squeejee, released under the MIT license

Converted to Rails gem by Alexander Timofeev (https://github.com/ATimofeev) 2012

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request