What´s the easier way to implement a full text search in my app

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Plugin? what? Manually? How? (Soma links please)

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Assuming you are using mysql the easiest way is probably mysql's fulltext search (because you don't need to worry about running indexing tools, having a search daemon running etc.)

Fred

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should add that this lacks some of the sophistication of other solutions and that the reason I stopped using it on one app was because it was getting pretty sluggish with a couple of hundred thousand documents.

Fred

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On May 9, 4:20 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>

> > Plugin? what?

In Nick Plante and David Berube's book "Practical Rails Plugins" Chapter 16 talks about implementing the plugin Sphinx to do Full Text Search.