Tag: thinking-sphinx

Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

by Gautam Rege, posted in Case Studies, Ruby on Rails, Search

Recently, we faced a huge performance problem with one of our installed apps. The application is a Call Center ERP solution. The Call model is updated very frequently as there are about approximately 8,000 - 10,000 calls being made everyday. For every action there is an audit trail, so updates and inserts into database are … Continue reading Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

using thinking sphinx search in rails app

by sandipransing, posted in Ruby on Rails

I am using acts_as_ferret and ferret server as of now with my rails application and it just works fine for me. The ONLY problem is performance as it takes a lot time to build index and to rebuild index when it gets screwed up and that's where sphinx rocks! To get started with thinking sphinx … Continue reading using thinking sphinx search in rails app