Recommended search library?

Lutz_Horn2 · October 9, 2006, 1:08pm

Hi,

bbqTree schrieb:

maybe i should go with ferret since its most widely use?

Yes: http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret

Lutz

hamza_khan-cheema · October 10, 2006, 11:59am

Hi,

I prefer acts_as_searchable. It user HyperEstraier (it seems to have better utf support then ferret).

It is a bit more complex to setup HyperEstraier, but I think it is worth it.

http://poocs.net/2006/4/6/introducing-acts-as-searchable

Hamza

David_Balmain · October 10, 2006, 1:33pm

Hi Hamza,

In what way is the utf8 support better? Just curious.

Dave

hamza_khan-cheema · October 10, 2006, 2:36pm

Dave,

Well I guess that statement does not have much weight behind it. I should not have said that, it is just my impression

I can just base that on past experiance. If you go to the HyperEstraier demonstration site, in Japanese (Hyper Estraier: a full-text search system for communities) You will see that it handles utf-8 very nicely.

When I was working on www.chinadialogue.net , I first started using Ferret, but found that I was having difficulities indexing the content. So I tried using HyperEstaier, and it just seemed to make the index.

Looking back, it might not have anything to do with utf-8, just my lack of knowledge.

Hamza

David_Balmain · October 10, 2006, 3:14pm

Maybe not. Ferret has come a long way in the last few months. UTF-8 data should be fine. The only problem you might run into now is if you use mixed data encodings like UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 together but I imagine this wouldn't be good in HyperEstraier either. Maybe I'm wrong and it does detecting the data encoding somehow.

Cheers, Dave