If you consider using Postgresql, then tsearch2 is awesome. Its built into the latest version of Postgresql.
- Ericson Smith CTO http://www.funadvice.com On Jan 4, 2008 11:32 AM, Robby Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 4, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Vince Wadhwani wrote: > > > > > I've got a smallish site with not a ton of data at the moment.. but > > all that could change at some point so I'd like to plan with that in > > mind. Currently I'm deployed on an nginx/mongrel stack that works > > quite well. My site uses Ferret for search and it's ok.. the big > > problem is that some terms don't show up as expected.. especially if > > there are apostrophes, plurals, etc involved. > > > > I've got two choices that I see... pony up the O'reilly mini-pdf and > > tweak ferret settings or scrap ferret and go with Sphinx (and hope it > > handles cases like this better). I'm not sure how much time the > > latter would take me but, assuming that I'm going to spend somewhere > > around 40 hours anyway, which route would you all recommend? > > > > We've used ferret on past projects... and now use sphinx. We're not > likely going back to ferret. ;-) > > Robby > > -- > Robby Russell > Founder and Executive Director > > PLANET ARGON, LLC > Design, Development, and Hosting with Ruby on Rails > > http://www.planetargon.com/ > http://www.robbyonrails.com/ > > +1 503 445 2457 > +1 877 55 ARGON [toll free] > +1 815 642 4068 [fax] > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
