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I have a large table (> 20,000 records) with text columns for which I need to build a search function. Is there a "Rails" way to index all the entries and NOT search using LIKE? "LIKE" searches can get very slow and I would rather build an index of the columns to speed up things. Just want to know if there is something like "acts_as_indexable"

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog