There are several plugin options for building a search engine into your Ruby on Rails application. Which of these is the best?
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There are several plugin options for building a search engine into your Ruby on Rails application. Which of these is the best?
Thinking Sphinx has more concise syntax to define which fields and which models are indexed.
Both UltraSphinx and Thinking Sphinx (recently) have ultra-cool feature which takes into account geographical proximity of objects.
UltraSphinx has annoying problems with how it loads models (it does not load entire Rails stack, so you could get strange and hard to diagnose errors, which are handled by adding explicit
requirestatements).We use Thinking Sphinx on new projects, and UltraSphinx on projects which use geo content.