[LRUG] Solr or Sphinx

[Riccardo Tacconi]

I agree.

First sunspot test:

 fork() function is unimplemented on this machine (NotImplementedError)

when executing: sunspot-solr start

As you might guess I have to use Windows. However I can run my
standalone Sorl server

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Luis Correa d'Almeida
<luis.ca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can see that Thinking Sphinx is very easy to use but powerfull. It seems
> > that sunspot and sunspot_rails are more used than acts_as_solr.
> >
> > I still not sur what to use :-)
> >
>
> It might be worth spiking the two solutions. Spend a couple of days
> implementing a small use case on each option. It is usually well worth
> the investment.
>
> > Where I work there is a department that is already using Sorl, so I wuold
> > not need to install another search server. Thanks for all the good advices.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Ed Davey <ed at veryreal.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> I vote for sunspot and sunspot_rails (solr).
> >>
> >> sunspot v1.0 was just released last night. It features:
> >>
> >> - a totally on the case maintainer (Mat Brown), check the activity on
> >> http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-sunspot
> >> - great dsl
> >> - multi-select facets
> >> - spatial searching
> >> - no crazy sphinx.conf files which won't do what you want
> >>
> >> Read all about it at:
> >>
> >> http://outoftime.github.com/2010/03/03/sunspot-1-0.html
> >>
> >> ED
> >>
> >> On 5 Mar 2010, at 10:21, Riccardo Tacconi wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am not sure which one to choose, Solr or Sphinx. I read somewhere that
> >>> Solr is less used than it used to be. What do you use and with which
> >>> plug-in? Is it possible, with both of them, to have text search, ordered by
> >>> relevance, with some decent query customize to tune searches?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
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