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Acts as Ferret

Acts_as_ferret is a plugin for Ruby on Rails which makes it simple to implement full text search for Rails. It builds on Ferret Ferret which is a ruby port of Apache Lucene . It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search.

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Home http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/
Repository svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/trunk/plugin/acts_as_ferret
License Rails' (MIT)
Rating (63 votes)
Owner Jens Kraemer, Kasper Weibel
Created 18 April 2006

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    18 July 2008

    Definitely worth of checking. If you can get Ferret gem installed on your hosting it's best(easiest) solution to full text search. Also, railsenvy got great tutorial how to use this plugin at http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial

    Hope it helps,

    dk

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