Odeley

In the past I was not quite happy using Ferret (for example). acts_as_ferret is cool, but I would have had to tweak it quite much to please my concerns.
In the meantime I switched to simple MySQL FULLTEXT indexing and I feel fine! (Will give you a post later on!)

By coincidence I stepped across this discussion in the  Deploying Rails Google Group .

It really doesn’t leave a good spot on Ferret.
Almost everyone agrees in this long discussion, that Ferret WILL bring you into trouble while using it in production.

Sphinx seems to be the new runner-up!

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