On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:59 PM, fausto wrote:
>
> Hi, i'm currently using ferret+acts_as_ferret for doing some searches
> in the db (not so big for now, just 40k~ records, but they will be
> near 2M+ soon). For now ferret it's working quite well, but sometimes
> i've indexes corrupted (i use it's drb server in production) and i've
> to rebuild all the indexes, so i've bad indexes, angry users and time
> spent to make it right.
> I'm looking at sphinx and it seems the answers to this problems, as it
> seems that it doesn't have this such of problems. But i've seen that
> i've to remake indexes everytime (/hour or less).. does it take a lot
> to rebuild them?
Look into the 'delta' options. That way you have a main index and a
delta index of recent changes. Quicker to update and then nightly you
can rebuild the whole thing.
> Is there anyone who use shpinx in production?
I have in the past yes, using the thinking sphinx plugin.
Worked great.
> Another big question about it is if it's possible to create custom
> indexes without having the records in the db, for example with ferret
> it's just a :fields => {:my_custom_field => {}} and then a method
> named my_custom_field which set what i need (for example a list of
> strings/integers, that i need to index, like category ids "4 8 15 16
> 23 42", and then doing a query searching with for example 15, or stuff
> like that (actually i've 8 fields, but soon they will be around 12-15)
> Is it possible something like this with sphinx?
> For ferret there is acts_as_ferret, for sphinx what do you suggest ?
> acts_as_sphinx or is there something else?
> thank you
> >
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