Multiple word searching with Ruby, and MySQL

Question

I\'m trying to accomplish a multiple word searching in a quotes database using Ruby, ActiveRecord, and MySQL. The way I did is shown bellow, and it is working, but I would l

Answer 1

The better way to do it would be to implement full text searching. You can do this in MySQL but I would highly recommend Solr. There are many resources online for implementing Solr within rails but I would recommend Sunspot as an entrance point.