On 24 Jan 2010, at 23:49, steve ross wrote:
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
We use Solr for all but one of our applications, using a custom
developed plugin (based on thinking sphinx), working like a charm on
our databases that need realtime indexing without delta indexes.
Ferret corrupted very often, Sphinx has the realtime problem.
Another option might be to look into MongoDB as a database, has some
pretty nifty indexing features too. Requires a bit of a different
mindset than normal relational databases though and might not be
suited for every project.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
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