# partial text search using ferret search

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/partial-text-search-using-ferret-search/17632>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 31, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/partial-text-search-using-ferret-search/17632 "2007-08-31T13:38:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gene\_Tani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gene\_Tani](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Gene_Tani)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/partial-text-search-using-ferret-search/17632/1 "2007-08-31T13:38:25Z")

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can you clearly state what capability you were looking for in ferret? Is it faceted browsing, wher e you combine SQL logic with search capabilities (stemming, stopwords, tokenizer/analyzer)?