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

unfortunately, in most cases, ferret is not what you're looking for, it's got recurring issues with re-indexing speed, index corruption and segfaults on the server. I think most people are going to SOLR, sphinx, and Xapian. I recall seeing some Tsearch / postgres apps mentioned, Tsearch seems to be a industrial-strength solution

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Full Text Searching with Rails