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LanguagesNamedAfterCofee
LanguagesNamedAfterCofee

Reputation: 5952

Light alternative to Sunspot for Rails

I really like Sunspot in Rails, but it adds way too much to my slug size on heroku (10mb to 33mb). Is there a good, much lighter alternative to Sunspot? I only need basic full text searching for two fields.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 717

Answers (4)

Omar Qureshi
Omar Qureshi

Reputation: 9093

Not too sure whether heroku does it, but since it uses pg - I don't see why tsearch2 wouldn't work, best thing is, you shouldn't need any gems (so long as you aren't afraid to write a little SQL).

Upvotes: 0

outoftime
outoftime

Reputation: 2200

The slug size is large because Sunspot includes a bundled instance of Solr, which is a large distribution. I believe the forthcoming 1.3 release of Sunspot splits this out into a separate gem, so the main Sunspot client gem will be a much more manageable size. 1.3 is currently out as a prerelease: https://rubygems.org/gems/sunspot/versions/1.3.0.rc4

Upvotes: 1

zolter
zolter

Reputation: 7160

Try this meta-search. I think for a little searching it is enough.

Upvotes: 2

Michael Irwin
Michael Irwin

Reputation: 3149

Check out the IndexTank add-on and the Tanker gem.

Upvotes: 0

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