Thanks to rake and brew etc, Thinking sphinx, sunspot and elastic search/tire are all pretty easy with rails if you want default indexes on English language doc

Thanks to rake and brew etc, Thinking sphinx, sunspot and elastic search/tire are all pretty easy with rails if you want default indexes on English language docs. It all gets complex quickly when you start layering on multiple search strategies and indexes, n-gram search, convert ISO latin to ASCII, etc, not to mention the S word "scaling" and anything near realtime index updates http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9160305/elastic-search-vs-sunspot-comparison-on-features http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9160305/elastic-search-vs... http://adventuresincoding.com/2012/05/full-text-search-in-rails-using-elasticsearch http://adventuresincoding.com/2012/05/full-text-search-in-ra... http://www.slideshare.net/dkeener/rails-and-the-apache-solr-search-engine http://www.slideshare.net/dkeener/rails-and-the-apache-solr-...