We remove duplicates from our Twitter search results by remembering the ID of the last result and only fetching tweets that have occurred since then.
Searchlogic makes searching models easier than ever with its assortment of named scopes. In this episode I show you how to create simple and advanced searches.
Rob Kaufman shows how easy it is to integrate Solr powered search into your Rails application using the ActsAsSolr plugin.
Rob Kaufman demonstrates Tanning Bed, his new Solr search mixin for any Ruby class. Tanning Bed makes fewer assumptions about how you want to deal with the Solr search engine, while still providing easy Ruby-like interfaces.
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A search form is quite different than other forms, this is because it does not deal with model's attributes. See a good way to add a simple search form in this episode.
If you need to create an advanced search with a lot of fields, it may not be ideal to use a GET request as I showed in episode 37. In this episode I will show you how to handle this by creating a Search resource.
If you need a full text search engine, Thinking Sphinx is a great solution. See why in this episode.