[Rails] Some questions about Ferret

[Roberto Saccon]

If you have more than one machine, you should also consider
http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/, which is written in C, but has
ruby-bindings and search is accessible via http and it has a rails plugin

On 4/18/06, Carl Lerche <carl.lerche at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to implement a search feature in a project I'm working on.
> Here is the gist of it. The project is basically a classified site
> which allows people to post a classified ad in a category and specify
> the zip code. I would like to let people search classifieds that are
> local to them (defined as within 15 miles of their zip). So, would it
> be possible to use Ferret to provide searching of the classifieds on
> a local basis? Before, with mysql fulltext search I could do a join
> between the zip table and the classifieds table, but I found the
> results to not be great.
>
> Also, it seems that ferret stores the index file locally. What
> happens if I add extra web servers and use load balancing? What
> happens to the index in this case?
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
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