Chris, The last time I needed to implement search was 3 years ago, on rails 3.2. At the time I went with solr because
1) I was hosting on heroku and it was very easy to use an add-on 2) It was trivial to use foreman locally to manage the local processes without worrying about the details 3) It has a really simple DSL for the models to define what is searchable, even if you need to do some data manipulation when sending the data over to solr 4) The DSL for performing searches was equally nice. As I recall the results where handled easily by the rest of the app as any ActiveRecord::Relation. I remember having to add a kaminari-solr add on, but was really trivial to get it working. Overall I was really happy with the performance in production. I hope this helps, — Ylan Segal [email protected] > On May 14, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Chris McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like some opinions on what folks are using for search in their Rails apps > currently as I need to implement one. > > Over the years I've seen: > > - solr > - thinking_sphinx > - elastic search > - others whose names I can't remember > > If you are currently employing an app-wide search tool in a Rails app, what > is it? Why do you like it? How long have you used it? > > Thanks! > > Chris McCann > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD > Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
