Tag Archives: sphinx

Quick update: Ravelry runs on

Just a little something to get the ol’ blog rolling again.

Last March, I wrote a tiny post that listed a few of the pieces that run Ravelry along with my opinion of each. Here is a update to that list. The biggest change? I’ve been running Phusion Passenger + Apache as application servers for […]

Sphinx for search

In November or December, I started looking into other full text search options that would be suitable for searching forums (1.1 million posts) and projects (430,000 and lots of important associations). At the time, I was using Ferret (a port of Apache Lucene) and acts_as_ferret for all of our search needs and I […]