2c2cfc88568032fe8e01666995cd47f2
Is alive!
Check it out at [langalot.com](http://langalot.com)
<p>Is alive!</p>
<p>Check it out at <a href="http://langalot.com">langalot.com</a></p>
2009-05-22T22:10:12Z
232
256
2
3
Langalot...
2010-03-11T13:48:45Z
cb5fda7fb408d3e5b3fe6b551505edb6
[Thinking Sphinx](http://ts.freelancing-gods.com/) is great, absolutely the
best [sphinx](http://sphinxsearch.com/) plugin for ActiveRecord (and thus
Rails) out there. Enabling infix/star searching isn't readily apparent in
the docs. Infix/star searching allows a search for "ren" to match "French",
"wrench", "Ren", "rent", etc. Without it enabled, a search for "ren" will
only return exact matches (from the previous list, only "Ren" would match).
To enable it for all your models, create `RAILS_ROOT/config/sphinx.yml` with
something like the following:
development:
enable_star: 1
min_infix_len: 3
testing:
enable_star: 1
min_infix_len: 3
production:
enable_star: 1
min_infix_len: 3
Reindex and restart sphinx. Now if you do a search for `*ren*`, you'll get
everything that matches. If you want to always surround your queries with
stars, you can add `:star => true` to your method call:
@words = Word.search(params[:q], :page => params[:page], :star => true)
This will obviously make your index bigger and make index generation take
longer. Increasing the size of `min_infix_len` will make the index smaller.
<p><a href="http://ts.freelancing-gods.com/">Thinking Sphinx</a> is great, absolutely the
best <a href="http://sphinxsearch.com/">sphinx</a> plugin for ActiveRecord (and thus
Rails) out there. Enabling infix/star searching isn’t readily apparent in
the docs. Infix/star searching allows a search for “ren” to match “French”,
“wrench”, “Ren”, “rent”, etc. Without it enabled, a search for “ren” will
only return exact matches (from the previous list, only “Ren” would match).</p>
<p>To enable it for all your models, create <code>RAILS_ROOT/config/sphinx.yml</code> with
something like the following:</p>
<pre><code>development:
enable_star: 1
min_infix_len: 3
testing:
enable_star: 1
min_infix_len: 3
production:
enable_star: 1
min_infix_len: 3
</code></pre>
<p>Reindex and restart sphinx. Now if you do a search for <code>*ren*</code>, you’ll get
everything that matches. If you want to always surround your queries with
stars, you can add <code>:star => true</code> to your method call:</p>
<pre><code>@words = Word.search(params[:q], :page => params[:page], :star => true)
</code></pre>
<p>This will obviously make your index bigger and make index generation take
longer. Increasing the size of <code>min_infix_len</code> will make the index smaller.</p>
2009-03-05T23:31:51Z
199
596
2
3
Infix/Star searching with Thinking Sphinx
2010-03-10T19:05:25Z
aa9419f2183d376577e0d20168fa28cc
Apple approved our first iPhone application, [ChatterBox](
http://xblabs.com/chatterbox/index.html)! It's a fun little application
that makes your iPhone say anything you type into it, in a lo-fi robotic
voice. The text-to-speech isn't perfect and the voice is a few decades
behind current technology, which just makes it more fun.
<p>Apple approved our first iPhone application, <a href="http://xblabs.com/chatterbox/index.html">ChatterBox</a>! It’s a fun little application
that makes your iPhone say anything you type into it, in a lo-fi robotic
voice. The text-to-speech isn’t perfect and the voice is a few decades
behind current technology, which just makes it more fun.</p>
2009-01-29T18:42:40Z
103
358
2
3
ChatterBox
2010-03-11T05:20:52Z