This is an updated version of the distributed-search twitter/searchbird project created by the twitter/scala-bootstrapper project. It is a thrift-based Finagle service that compiles a thrift source file into Ruby, Java, and Scala codes. The requirements for building should be - sbt 0.7.x (been tested with 0.7.4) - ruby/rubygem (for 'bundle install') This project uses updated jars/plugins for Finagle, standard-project, and sbt-thrift, among others. Scrooge, a thrift/scala compiler has been added to project. It uses different syntax for the Finagle Client/Services; the changes are demonstrated in Client.scala. More changes to come...