On Jan 4, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Philip Hallstrom 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. ;-) > > Can you elaborate on why? I'm mostly just curious :) > > To the parent... > > the ferret PDF booklet is pretty full of good information > if you stick with ferret. I don't however remember if it discusses > how to > handle words with apostrophes in it. It does talk about how to hand > plurals via the StemFilter though. > > http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Analysis/StemFilter.html > > -philip Ferret is unstable in production. Segfaults, corrupted indexes galore. We've switched around 40 clients form ferret to sphinx and solved their problems this way. I will never use ferret again after all the problems I have seen it cause peoples production apps. Plus sphinx can reindex many many times faster then ferret and uses less cpu and memory as well. Cheers- - Ezra Zygmuntowicz -- Founder & Software Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- EngineYard.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
