Hi, I have heard about Lucene a lot, that it's one of the best search engine library in JAVA, is there any similar(as powerful) library for Ruby.
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Ferret is what you're looking for:
"Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written for Ruby. It is inspired by Apache Lucene Java project."
RichieHindle
2009-08-23 13:56:08
Well you surely can put the high-performance in question. I find it deadly slow.
Lothar
2009-08-23 15:29:20
Can you share any performance numbers? Like x seconds to return a search over y documents/rows/whatever?
Mike Buckbee
2009-08-23 19:17:08
I have no personal experience with Ferret, but judging by what I've read and this page: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/MyFirstBenchmark it used to be slow but is now comparable with Java Lucene. There are performance numbers on that page. YMMV.
RichieHindle
2009-08-23 19:24:13
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Well, there's Ferret, which is a port of Lucene to Ruby. Also, Lucene is very easy to use from JRuby, if that's an option for you.
Depending on your needs, you might also want to take a look at Solr, which is a higher-level front-end built on Lucene. There is a Ruby interface, solr-ruby, that interacts with Solr via HTTP.
Dave Ray
2009-08-23 13:57:34
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unfortunately, in most cases, ferret is not what you're looking for, it's got recurring issues with re-indexing speed, index corruption and segfaults on the server. I think most people are going to SOLR, sphinx, and Xapian. I recall seeing some Tsearch / postgres apps mentioned, Tsearch seems to be a industrial-strength solution
Take a look here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132284/full-text-searching-with-rails
Gene T
2009-08-24 01:08:31
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CLucene is a cross-platform C++ port of Lucene. It can be wrapped and used also from every high-level language (there are also a few legacy Swift projects you could start with). See:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clucene
http://clucene.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=clucene/clucene;a=summary
synhershko
2009-09-18 07:41:13
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I would try one of them in combination with sphinx.
Thinking Sphinx http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/rails3.html
Riddle http://riddle.freelancing-gods.com/
UltraSphinx http://github.com/fauna/ultrasphinx
http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/ultrasphinx/files/README.html
chris
2010-10-11 21:51:40