Mike C
2009-Sep-13 22:38 UTC
best way to search - alternatives to full text (thinking sphinx)?
Currently I am using thinking_sphinx, but to my dismay, a lot of hosts do not have sphinx installed and are unwilling to install it "because of security reasons". This leaves me with a very limited option of hosting as I''d have to get a VPS/dedicated but I just don''t have that kind of money, so I''ll have to stick to shared. Long story short, is there a good alternative to full text searching? The only solution I am aware of right now is using searchlogic, but since it uses LIKE so I would have to change back to full text after a while.
Philip Hallstrom
2009-Sep-14 17:03 UTC
Re: best way to search - alternatives to full text (thinking sphinx)?
> Currently I am using thinking_sphinx, but to my dismay, a lot of hosts > do not have sphinx installed and are unwilling to install it "because > of security reasons".Sounds like a lame excuse to me...> This leaves me with a very limited option of > hosting as I''d have to get a VPS/dedicated but I just don''t have that > kind of money, so I''ll have to stick to shared.SliceHost has a $20/mo option. If you''re site isn''t super big that would probably be enough...> Long story short, is there a good alternative to full text searching?MySQL has full text built in if you set up the tables a certain way. PostgreSQL has tsearch2, but unlikely your ISP will configure that if they won''t configure sphinx.
Aldric Giacomoni
2009-Sep-14 17:09 UTC
Re: best way to search - alternatives to full text (thinking sphinx)?
I use site5 and I''m very happy with them. They changed ownership sometime last year and they''re now very much on the RoR ball. They use mySQL. You may find their prices / options to your liking. I''m afraid I don''t know anything about full-text searching; it''s one of the next areas I''m going to look into. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.