[Rails-deploy] Re: sphinx vs ferret

2008-04-03 Thread Pat Allan
On 03/04/2008, at 4:55 PM, Adhiraj Rankhambe wrote: Sphinx:- Advantages:- 1. Great at speed of indexing and searching. 2. Its at the database level so just one copy of indexes unlike ferret. Disadvantages:- 1. Difficult to integrate as compared to Ferret or Solr. Arguable, but each to

[Rails-deploy] Email Providers

2008-04-03 Thread Jordan McKible
I'm curious if anyone has any recommendation for email service providers. I'm currently using AuthSMTP and it's working out okay. I'm looking for a little more flexibility in which headers are available to set, and of course deliverability is always key. To give you an idea of scale, we'll

[Rails-deploy] Re: Email Providers

2008-04-03 Thread Jesse Proudman
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