Chris, I haven't played with Hyper Estraier, just read about it.
There are really a lot of options for doing search in your Rails apps. The last slide of Seth Fitzsimmons' presentation at Rails Conf--"Lucene Eye for the Ruby Guy"-- lists a dozen (pasted below) and those exclude the basic full text search capabilities of a regular database (MySQL, Postgres...) which both allow table joins to boot. There must be a good way to comprehensively compare all of these options. I'd love to see it. Hyper Estraier - hyperestraier.sf.net Tsearch2 - www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/ DB2 Net Search Extender - www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/extenders/netsearch/ Lucene - lucene.apache.org Lucene-WS - lucene-ws.sf.net SOLR - incubator.apache.org/solr/ Ferret - ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ Lucy - lucene.apache.org/lucy/ ActiveSearch - wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Active+Search+Plugin acts_as_searchable - ar-searchable.rubyforge.org acts_as_ferret - projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/ Searchable - mojodna.net/searchable/ruby/ -- Thiago On 11/2/06, Chris Van Pelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you played with Hyper Estraier? It sounds like the two are very similar. Chris On 11/1/06, Thiago Jackiw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there, > > The Solr nightly build is a ready-to-go solution which has an embedded > servlet container called Jetty. The only requirement that you need to > have is either JRE or JDK 5.0 running on your machine, I prefer JRE > because it's lighter. And that's simply it. You don't even need to > know java at all to use Solr with Rails. I don't :) > > Then once you have Solr on your machine, you just start it and let it > run. It's recommended to have it run as a daemon, so you don't always > have to be starting it manually every time you restart your computer. > > It's actually easier than it sounds to have it running and integrated > with a rails app. And if more people show interest, maybe my buddy Joe > and I could come by and give a little talk about it. > > Try it out and let me know what do you think. > > -- Thiago > > On 11/1/06, brez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yea im knee deep in search engines at the moment, glad to see this.. > > isnt solr a servlet app tho? i.e. do you have to run a container? > > how's it work? > > > > > The first plugin (http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org) is called > > _______________________________________________ > > Sdruby mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby > > > _______________________________________________ > Sdruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby > _______________________________________________ Sdruby mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby
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