I have used Solr for achieving this. And it works like a charm. Though I had
implemented this using Java API, I have heard a lot of good things about the
Ruby API as well.
Another contender would be
thinking-sphinx<http://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx>
.
Check - http://wiki.apache.org/solr/solr-ruby &
http://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_search.html
<http://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_search.html>regards,
aakash
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM, John Butler
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I need an amazon like menu system so you can drill down categories,
> price ranges, etc etc until you eventually find what you want. Then
> what i would like is a direct link to this product so if you send it to
> a user they can find what you were looking at it.
>
> Ive done some searching and not really found anything. It will be a
> mixture of text searching with or without.
>
> Is there any plugins, techniques out there already that work with rails
>
> JB
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