That's an excellent point Guyren! There are the textacular and pg_search gems if you want more sugar in your ActiveRecord. Each has a different approach. I used textacular on a project a few years ago for a project we were hosting on Heroku.
Some of us are on projects that use Mysql so we don't have the luxury of taking advantage of Postgres :~( Kevin On May 14, 2015 5:58 PM, "Guyren Howe" <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 14, 2015, at 17:02 , 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. > > > Worth noting that Postgres has a surprisingly full-featured text search > capability built in, that includes simile search, stemming (finding "ran" > when you searched for "run", for example), ranking, fuzzy search and other > features. Nothing like having it all in one place and less to set up. > > <http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/> > > -- > -- > 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 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.
