Cheers all, I will dig into this now.
Appreciate ther feedback.. On 24 Jan, 22:49, steve ross <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:33 PM, RubyonRails_newbie wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > this may over-lap with my recent ferret post, but I wondered if anyone > > knew of the best way to add a search engine for rails on your site? > > > I've tried ferret, which seems a bit ''hit n miss'' > > They all seem a bit "hit n miss". That's probably because they respond best > with large databases and you are probably working with a test database. The > three candidates I've used are: > > * Sphinx > * Solr > * Ferret > > From my perspective, the best choice is the one that provides the most > pleasing results for you. Sphinx does very quick indexing, but not in real > time (i.e., as the row is inserted). > > > Someone has also reccomeded paperclip. > > Paperclip is for adding attachments to existing models "as if" they were just > another column in the database. Storage of the attachment can be in your > filesystem, or Amazon S3, or pretty much anywhere else in the cloud. You > provide the implementation for the "anywhere else" part. > > > In addition to this, where would I look to find the ability to add a > > google contacts search facility? So - anyone can enter their account > > and find people on my site who are also on gmail? Face book have this, > > but dunno how it's implemented, or where to start looking... > > Start here:http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/. Then look > here:http://github.com/mislav/contacts. > > Good luck! -- 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.
