Ylan, As always, a very concise, cogent answer -- thanks very much!
Chris On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Ylan Segal <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > The last time I needed to implement search was 3 years ago, on rails 3.2. > At the time I went with solr because > > 1) I was hosting on heroku and it was very easy to use an add-on > 2) It was trivial to use foreman locally to manage the local processes > without worrying about the details > 3) It has a really simple DSL for the models to define what is searchable, > even if you need to do some data manipulation when sending the data over to > solr > 4) The DSL for performing searches was equally nice. As I recall the > results where handled easily by the rest of the app as any > ActiveRecord::Relation. I remember having to add a kaminari-solr add on, > but was really trivial to get it working. > > Overall I was really happy with the performance in production. > > I hope this helps, > > — > Ylan Segal > [email protected] > > > > On May 14, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Chris McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'd like some opinions on what folks are using for search in their Rails > apps currently as I need to implement one. > > > > Over the years I've seen: > > > > - solr > > - thinking_sphinx > > - elastic search > > - others whose names I can't remember > > > > If you are currently employing an app-wide search tool in a Rails app, > what is it? Why do you like it? How long have you used it? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Chris McCann > > > > -- > > -- > > SD Ruby mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "SD Ruby" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sdruby/jJ68Z9EUCS8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
