Posted by Andrew Cetinick on June 16th, 2008
Ajax is a must these days for websites. It is used in almost all applications and in many cases is used for the wrong reasons. One of those cases is however used for the right reason, Ajax search.
In this tutorial I will be using the acts_as_ferret plugin to implement Ajax search into your view to return similar titles of posts. If you are unfamiliar with acts_as_ferret please read my acts_as_ferret Tutorial post to setup the plugin for you models.
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Posted by Andrew Cetinick on May 13th, 2008
Lately I have been playing around with the acts_as_ferret plugin which makes it dead simple to implement full text search in your models for Ruby on Rails. The plugin is designed for the Ferret gem (a full featured search engine based on Apache Lucene). In this article I will guide you through the steps needed to implement searching for your models and talk about some of the problems I faced on the way.
Related: Ajax search in Rails
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