Rails - Jun 2006 - Natural Search

Does anyone know what the best approach would be to do a search against 
mutiple fields from one text string in a RoR app?

My client wants its user base to be able to issue a search like:

"Record Stores in 12321 Jazz"

So, esentially, the query would have to check a couple tables, and a 
couple fields in each table.

Thanks for any help.

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Take a look at ferret and acts_as_ferret.

I havn''t used them myself but I believe it has the ability to search
accross model and fields.  I wouldn''t know how to do it tho.

On 6/2/06, Guest <blamemike@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know what the best approach would be to do a search against
> mutiple fields from one text string in a RoR app?
>
> My client wants its user base to be able to issue a search like:
>
> "Record Stores in 12321 Jazz"
>
> So, esentially, the query would have to check a couple tables, and a
> couple fields in each table.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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Awesome! Thanks Daniel!

Daniel ----- wrote:
> Take a look at ferret and acts_as_ferret.
> 
> I havn''t used them myself but I believe it has the ability to
search
> accross model and fields.  I wouldn''t know how to do it tho.

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