pubmed_controller.rb

def searchPubmed
    @params = params.pretty_inspect
    optionsAll = {
      'retmax' => 10000,
      'email' => 'geapi@cs.umd.edu',
    }
    options = {
      'retmax' => 50,
      'email' => 'geapi@cs.umd.edu',
    }
    keywords = params[:term] # "ovarian cancer p53"
    # PubMed keyword search
    @pubLib = Array.new 
    @allEntries  = Bio::PubMed.esearch(keywords,optionsAll) 
    @entries = Bio::PubMed.esearch(keywords,options)
    medline = esummary(@entries.join(','))
    d = Hpricot.XML(medline)
    (d/:DocSum).each do |a|
      entry = Hash.new
      entry[:id] =  a.at('Id').inner_html
      entry[:Date] = a.at("Item[@Name='PubDate']").inner_html
      autoren =""
      a.at("Item[@Name='AuthorList']").search('Item') do |author|
        if(!author.nil?)
          autoren += author.inner_html + ", "
        end
      end
      #autoren += a.at("Item[@Name='LastAuthor']").inner_html creates duplicate of LastAuthor, bad!
      entry[:Authors] = autoren
      entry[:Title] = a.at("Item[@Name='Title']").inner_html
      @pubLib << entry
    end
    respond_to do |result|
      result.js
    end
  end