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Get up and running in no time with enterprise-grade search powered by Solr. Nick Zadrozny shows you what Solr can do, how it works, and how you can make the most of it in production. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

MetaWhere provides a way to do complex find conditions without SQL in Active Record. MetaSearch makes it easy to create search forms with many find options.

When you need to build a complex command, or devise a non-trivial search pattern, Vim’s command-line mode can be rather limiting. In this episode, I will introduce the command-line window, which allows you to use the full power of Vim when editing search queries and commands.

Many administration pages have search, sorting, and pagination on the index page. See how to add all of this including AJAX.

Learn how to refactor a set of conditional Active Record queries using a Dynamic Delegator.

We add the capability to filter search results based on the brand they belong to and the source they came from.

We add logic to avoid fetching duplicate search results from Google Blog search.

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 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. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

MySQL (or Postgres) does a fine job when querying specific rows, but it’s not so great when it comes to searching on large text fields. Sphinx is a search service that makes full text searching quite easy and throws in extra features like boolean search (“rails OR merb”), word proximity,...