benjohnson77/gripit

class to search files for text and return context

GripIt

Approach:

I need to search a whole mess of files for a word and return the words around it to determine the context.

I didn't want to set up solr because I didn't want to persist this, I just needed a fast way to highlight the items that matched the search.

I used the ruby scan attribute and figured out some regular expression that searches the way a human would expect by ignoring punctuation but including it in the response.

Usage

text = GripIt.new("files/short_excerpt.txt", "word")
search = text.searcher("sketch", 0)

Some Sample files are included to see the tests run.

rspec spec

TODO

There is a URL method roughed in that I want to finish aka right tests for. I want to add some other similar common regex patterns and add them as additional types. Maybe this is worth making a gem too, not sure.