Indeed, but unfortunately I am under MySQL and not willing to change 
right now...

About ferret on a shared host there is this solution which could be a 
temporary solution.
http://boonedocks.net/mike/archives/151-Rails-acts_as_ferret-without-DRb.html

H

Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> Adrian Madrid wrote:
>> Don't even try running ferret on a shared host. I don't think you really
>> have any other option but MySQL fulltext indexes in a shared hosting
>> environment.
> 
> You might take a look at tsearch2 on postgresql (for a shared host 
> solution).
> IIRC, it only requires special indexes in the database, but no daemon 
> process (like e.g. sphinx does). This was mentioned higher up in this 
> thread too, by
> Ericson Smith.
> 
> I did some experiments with tsearch2 and it worked OK (but then I 
> switched to sphinx, mainly because MySQL is more common as a Rails 
> back-end and because a clean and full plug-in (Ultrasphinx) was 
> available). In older versions of Postgresql it is a plug-in, since 8.2 
> (IIRC) it is built-in by default.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Peter

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