Tag Archives: sphinx

Quick update: Ravelry runs on

An UPDATED 2010 post can be found here: http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2010/03/24/ravelry-runs-on-2010 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 [...]

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 wasn’t happy [...]