Ruby alternative for Lucene

Question

I have heard about Lucene a lot, that it\'s one of the best search engine libraries in Java. Is there any similar (as powerful) library for Ruby?

Answer 1

I would try one of them in combination with sphinx.

Thinking Sphinx http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/rails3.html

Riddle http://riddle.freelancing-gods.com/

http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/ultrasphinx/files/README.html