pat/thinking-sphinx

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Thinking Sphinx is a Ruby library that integrates the Sphinx and Manticore full-text search engines with ActiveRecord and Rails. It lets developers define search indexes on models and query them through a familiar ActiveRecord-style API.

Use cases

• add full-text search to a Rails app
• index ActiveRecord models with Sphinx
• search records with Manticore from Ruby
• build faceted search over Rails models
• replace slow SQL LIKE queries with full-text search
• integrate Sphinx search into ActiveRecord scopes

When to choose

• you have a Rails or ActiveRecord app and need fast full-text search
• you already run Sphinx or Manticore and want idiomatic Ruby integration
• you need indexed, scalable search over relational data

When to avoid

• you use a non-Ruby stack or an ORM other than ActiveRecord
• you prefer a hosted or all-in-one search solution like Elasticsearch or Meilisearch without running a separate engine
• your search needs are trivial and a simple SQL query suffices

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search-engine database web-development databases ruby sphinx manticore activerecord rails full-text-search search web-server

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