>>>> 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.
Huh. I must be lucky. Or not have that much to index (true) or users don't complain about not finding anything (probably very true) :-) I'll have t ogive sphinx a go next time around... thanks ezra > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
