Ferret has been very unstable for us. It is unfortunate because it seems like it would be more customizable than Sphinx. But I must admit that I like that Sphinx can take the data by itself from MySQL and index it really fast. AEM
On Jan 4, 2008 1:37 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > -- Adrian Esteban Madrid Lead Developer, Prefab Markets http://www.prefabmarkets.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
