flaubert
2009-May-09 14:21 UTC
What´s the easier way to implement a full text search in my app
Plugin? what? Manually? How? (Soma links please)
Frederick Cheung
2009-May-09 15:20 UTC
Re: What´s the easier way to implement a full text search in my app
On May 9, 3:21 pm, flaubert <aflaube...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Plugin? what? > Manually? How? (Soma links please)Assuming you are using mysql the easiest way is probably mysql''s fulltext search (because you don''t need to worry about running indexing tools, having a search daemon running etc.) Fred
Frederick Cheung
2009-May-09 15:40 UTC
Re: What´s the easier way to implement a full text search in my app
On May 9, 4:20 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> On May 9, 3:21 pm, flaubert <aflaube...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > Plugin? what? > > Manually? How? (Soma links please) > > Assuming you are using mysql the easiest way is probably mysql''s > fulltext search (because you don''t need to worry about running > indexing tools, having a search daemon running etc.) >should add that this lacks some of the sophistication of other solutions and that the reason I stopped using it on one app was because it was getting pretty sluggish with a couple of hundred thousand documents. Fred
WJSimacek
2009-May-09 17:57 UTC
Re: What´s the easier way to implement a full text search in my app
On May 9, 10:40 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> On May 9, 4:20 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> > wrote:> On May 9, 3:21 pm, flaubert <aflaube...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > > Plugin? what?In Nick Plante and David Berube''s book "Practical Rails Plugins" Chapter 16 talks about implementing the plugin Sphinx to do Full Text Search.> > > Manually? How? (Soma links please) > > > Assuming you are using mysql the easiest way is probably mysql''s > > fulltext search (because you don''t need to worry about running > > indexing tools, having a search daemon running etc.) > > should add that this lacks some of the sophistication of other > solutions and that the reason I stopped using it on one app was > because it was getting pretty sluggish with a couple of hundred > thousand documents. > > Fred