Search method added, request time check fixed

lib/models/music_brainz.rb

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ module MusicBrainz
     5.times do
       begin
         response = open(url, "User-Agent" => "gem musicbrainz (https://github.com/magnolia-fan/musicbrainz) @ " + Socket.gethostname)
+        self.last_query_time = Time.now.to_f
       rescue => e
         p "MusicBrainz: 503"
       end
       break unless response.nil?
     end
-    self.last_query_time = Time.now.to_f
     response
   end
   

lib/models/music_brainz/artist.rb

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ module MusicBrainz
     def release_groups
       if @release_groups.nil? and not self.id.nil?
         @release_groups = []
-        Nokogiri::XML(MusicBrainz.load('http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-group/?artist=' + self.id)).css('release-group').each do |rg|
+        Nokogiri::XML(MusicBrainz.load(
+          'http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-group/?artist=' + self.id
+        )).css('release-group').each do |rg|
           @release_groups << MusicBrainz::ReleaseGroup.parse_xml(rg)
         end
       end
@@ -27,5 +29,33 @@ module MusicBrainz
       @artist.date_end = xml.css('artist > life-span > end').text unless xml.css('artist > life-span > end').empty?
       @artist
     end
+    
+    private
+    
+    def self.search name
+      artists = []
+      xml = Nokogiri::XML(MusicBrainz.load(
+        'http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query='+ URI.escape(query).gsub(/\&/, '%26').gsub(/\?/, '%3F') +'~&limit=50'
+      ))
+      xml.css('artist-list > artist').each do |a|
+        artist = {
+          :name => a.css('name').text,
+          :weight => 0,
+          :desc => a.css('disambiguation').text unless a.css('disambiguation').empty?,
+          :type => a.css('type').text.capitalize,
+          :mbid => a.attr('id')
+        }
+        aliases = a.css('alias-list > alias').map{ |item| item.text }
+        if aliases.include? name
+          artist[:weight] += 20
+        elsif aliases.map{ |item| item.downcase }.include? name.downcase
+          artist[:weight] += 10
+        elsif aliases.map{ |item| item.downcase.gsub(/\s/, '') }.include? name.downcase.gsub(/\s/, '')
+          artist[:weight] += 5
+        end
+        artists << artist
+      end
+      artists.sort{ |a, b| b[:weight] <=> a[:weight] }.take(10)
+    end
   end
 end