Fixing Launchbar's Search Templates

06 May 2012

For a while now my Launchbar Search Templates have been broken for local files.  I think Apple changed Safari and now the params part of the URL is lost when referencing a local file. The end effect is that the great searchable feature of documentation generated with sdoc breaks badly.

First I just thought I'd setup a local nginx server and have it serve up my Reference folder... then I thought of something that would be even easier.

<p>I just threw this small config.ru file into my Reference folder then linked Reference to .pow/reference and Reference/public back to Reference (to get Pow to serve up static assets). Now http://reference.dev/ pulls up my reference documentation using the existing pow server I already have running constantly anyway.</p>

I should point out it's Pow doing most of the heavy lifting here (since we added the public symlink), not Rack::File.  You can actually provide a dummy app that 404s all day and this will continue to work just fine.