hmmmm.... so, do more people use sphinx for full text search?
i was just more comfortable using a lucence ruby port since lucene is so well known On Sep 9, 9:48 am, Thorsten Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 9, 4:23 pm, "Russell Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > veering off topic... what does "Ferret is nice, until you try to make it run > > in production." mean exactly? i've seen mention that ferret has problems in > > production but i don't understand what other use you'd want it for. just to > > develop an idea but never put into production? > > exactly the point. you develop an idea, want to run it in > production and have a hell of a time. I've used ferret only in two > projects. Project one was very simple and we had no problems. > The other project was a bit more complex, no problems in > development, but when we put it in production, the index update > failed totally, missing to add things to the index, even after > full reindexing the whole dataset. We didn't give it too much > time though, so such issues may be solvable. > But to switch the whole thing to sphinx was a matter of a day or two > (with no previous knowledge of Sphinx) and it worked in production > as in development right away. Ok, a bit more work to setup everything, > but since then running (several months now) without the least trouble. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
