I need an indexing and searching gem like Sphinx but without needing Rails Any suggestions ? It has to run under Ruby 1.9.3 on a windows box. Tried Sphinx without rails but it needs MySql and a lot of configuration, diddn't succeed. Can you recommend something that uses a build in db or feature like Sqlite ?
While certain plugins (like thinking_sphinx) are Rails-specific, Sphinx itself is just a search server, and you can use the client gem directly to index and search whatever you want; it need not be in ActiveRecord (which, incidentally, you could also use outside of Rails if you wished).
Another alternative is Apache Solr, which provides similar functionality to Sphinx, including a sophisticated search system (supporting stemming and lots of other nice things).
Although Sphinx itself works regardless of whether you use Rails or not, if you're having difficulties with it, you can always try something like Solr or Elastic Search. I heard good things about the latter and it is quite trivial to get to run on Windows, as you seem to be.
Another alternative for sphinx,solr is OpenSearchServer . A search engine based on lucene. And it has a good windows support. Have a look at the documentation here how to install in windows.You can use the API to integrate in Ruby.
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I am implementing user search functionality in my Rails application. I want the application to suggest the correct spellings if the user makes a mistake in typing the spelling. Is there any plugin for this in ruby. Can this be done in sql?
Regards,
Pankaj
It looks like hunspell gem is there to help you. It requires some external dependencies so it's not pure Ruby. But according to this readme it seem to be exactly what you are looking for.
Alternatively, you can try BOSSMan. It looks like it spell checks via Yahoo.
I'm new to Ruby/Redmine/Redcloth but I'm trying to achieve the following:
The default way to build a link in Textile is "foo":http://bar. However, 90% of the day I use Atlassian products, which use [foo|http://bar] as link markup.
To keep everything a bit uniform I'd like to implement this in Redmine via a plugin. However, it appears that you can't change the macro syntax so instead I'll have to look into extending RedCloth to accept this form of inserting links.
Does anyone know how I can achieve this?
Thank you and merry christmas,
Dennis
You might consider switching to one of the two Markdown plugins (one is Markdown Extra-like, based on Bluefeather), which are a bit more similar in link style, although not the same as what you are used to. Since you use SO, though, you're obviously familiar with it.
Otherwise you'd have to write a full plugin, for which either of the plugins I've mentioned would serve as a good model. Best of luck.
I need a full text search engine which should support internationalization.
Thanks
Use Sphinx with MySQL
There is one called Xapian. I haven't used it but I've heard good things.
I've used Ferret ( Ruby ) and worked for me, unfortunately it only works in ruby 1.8.x , (It's not supported in Ruby 1.9)
Other solutions were already mentioned: Sphinx, Xapian , also SolR ( based on Java/Lucene) should work)
an old yet good reference.
http://wrg.upf.edu/WRG/dctos/Middleton-Baeza.pdf
I know that I've seen this site before, but cannot remember it for the life of me. Basically, it is a listing of commonly used gems, like XML parsing or ORM libraries. For the ORM case, it lists ActiveRecord, DataMapper, and the like, stating the advantages and disadvantages of each. Does anyone know what this site is? I've googled and have not been able to find it.
You have ruby-toolbox for that http://www.ruby-toolbox.com
You know only information about their activity on github. But it's interesting.
I'm looking for a Ruby library or gem (or set of gems) which will not only do spidering, but also collect the data into, say, a database, and allow basic searches on the data (i.e. a typical web search).
I've found several spidering libraries, so that part seems well covered (I was going to try Anemone first), but I can't find anything that will take the spidered data and allow querying on it. For lack of an existing one, I was going to write something myself with Anemone.
Any suggestions?
That blog post might give you some pointers. Also, look into ferret for the search part.
there is a ruby gem may help you:
http://spidr.rubyforge.org/
There are lots of great stuff on github.com