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• May

  14

  2009

  Thinking sphinx and paginating find

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  I wrote sometime back about moving from ferret to sphinx and decided to write the second part of the post today. At Muziboo, we use the paginating find plugin to paginate results. You can find a great tutorial on paginating find at Ilya’s blog. Thinking sphinx however works only with will paginate plugin (atleast out [...]

  posted in sphinx by prateek

• Mar

  21

  2009

  Ferret to Sphinx: Part 1 – Why and how to integrate it with acts_as_taggable

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  I am currently working on moving Muziboo’s search from ferret to sphinx. We were using acts_as_ferret (AAF) plugin which provides a very simple rails integration with ferret. AAF binds itself to the active record callbacks and makes index updation painless. However AAF is pretty unstable in production mode and we realized this only lately with [...]

  posted in acts_as_taggable, ruby on rails, sphinx, thinking sphinx by prateek