From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marcus-sup@bar-coded.net (Marcus Williams) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:11:06 +0100 Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii In-Reply-To: <1216832349-sup-2908@entry> References: <1216589569-sup-1520@entry> <1216802131-sup-4710@wrasse> <1216832349-sup-2908@entry> Message-ID: <1216987703-sup-5083@tomsk> On 23.7.2008, William Morgan wrote: > > There are a number of other indexs such as Xapian or Hyper Estraier > > both have ruby bindings and both are quite mature and widely used in > > other projects. > > Interesting. I will check those out. I only picked Sphinx because it > seemed popular and robust, but it is currently making my life more difficult > than it really needs to be. You might enjoy datamapper - http://datamapper.org I've been knocking up web apps in ruby/sinatra/datamapper in stupidly few lines with absolutely no contact with the db underlying the system other than through datamapper. Marcus