Rails 3 full-text search options (gems, plugins, etc)

I was wondering if there were any suggestions for how to best roll with full text searching in your Rails 3 apps? Thinking Sphinx and acts_as_ferret aren't updated for Rails 3 yet, and even basic activerecord search helpers like Searchlogic also aren't there yet.

Any thoughts? Are you using any forked versions of the above gems that have been updated to Rails 3?

Upvotes: 32

Answers (8)

Fabiano Soriani

Reputation: 8572

update complete change

I would go for Elasticsearch via Tire

super fast
scalable
configurable
super powerful

This is a good resource to start learning: http://exploringelasticsearch.com/book/searching-data/the-query-dsl-and-the-search-api.html

Upvotes: 8

Tanzeeb Khalili

Reputation: 7344

For a solution without external dependencies, you can try https://github.com/dougal/acts_as_indexed

Upvotes: 1

Peter

Reputation: 447

I have branched and modified acts_as_ferret to pretty much work with rails 3 (ruby 1.8 and 1.9): https://github.com/brightchimp/acts_as_ferret

3 tests still fail so I suggest running them to see it they will affect your app (more like this, sorting, and pagination (as a result of sorting fail).

I have an outstanding pull request to merge the changes back into the original. In the meantime you can use my branch by specifying the git repo in your gem file:

gem 'acts_as_ferret', :git => 'git://github.com/brightchimp/acts_as_ferret.git'

The acts_as_ferret gem seemed to fall out of favour a while ago but I still use it. I'm not sure why, but it's worth considering whether it's the best option for any new apps.

Upvotes: 0

fullstacklife

Reputation: 2061

https://indextank.com/documentation/ruby-client

Upvotes: 1

KannanR

Reputation: 448

http://github.com/kannanr/acts_as_solr_reloaded

I've modified the code a bit to work with Rails 3... .

Let me know if it works/not...

Upvotes: 1

Gnomet

Reputation: 966

Thinking Sphinx (ver. 2.x) should work with Rails 3 (http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/rails3.html) and there is a Rails 3 branch in the official repository.

I'm just starting to use thinking sphinx in a Rails 3 project, and so far it seems to work fine for basic searching, although I'm having some challenges with acts_as_taggable_on.

Upvotes: 9