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Solving the Riddle of Search: Using Sphinx with Rails
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Pat Allan (Freelancing Gods)
Working from the ground up, Pat Allan will give you a solid understanding of how searching with Sphinx works, covering the following topics:
- Sphinx Concepts:
- Fields and Attributes
- Installating Sphinx
- Adding Thinking Sphinx to a Rails application
- Adding indexes to your models
- Indexing your data
- Searching your data:
- Matching modes
- Ordering
- Pagination
- Delta indexes
- Fine-tuning settings
- Advanced usage:
- Delayed delta indexing
- Geo-location searching
- Facets
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Pat Allan
Freelancing Gods
Pat is a freelancing web developer usually located in Melbourne, Australia. When not caught up in code, he can be found helping organise Rails Camps. His thoughts are blogged semi-regularly at freelancing-gods.com, and he’s been known to make a mean pancake.
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It would have been helpful to have slides up ahead of time.
Examples were too fast to follow on the computer, so my installation prep wasn’t really useful.
Otherwise, enjoyed it.