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-# SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
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-Please see the [Ransack Blog](https://activerecord-hackery.github.io/ransack/blog) for a special announcement from the Ransack maintainers and Ernie Miller, the original author of Ransack.
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 # Introduction
 
 Ransack will help you easily add **searching to your Rails application**, without any additional dependencies.