Textacular
Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacular will extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun!
Overview
The Textacular gem is designed to leverage PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. It extends ActiveRecord with scopes to simplify and enhance search functionalities within Ruby on Rails applications.
Features
- PostgreSQL Integration: Textacular exclusively works with PostgreSQL databases.
- Advanced Search Syntax: Users can utilize Postgres's search syntax like '|', '&', '!', and more for advanced search queries.
- Web Search Support: Provides functionality for websearch_to_tsquery supporting various websearch-like syntaxes.
- Fuzzy Search: Offers trigram search functionality with the ability to adjust similarity thresholds.
- Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often referred to as Rails, is an open-source web application framework written in Ruby. Known for its convention over configuration and don't repeat yourself (DRY) principles, Rails simplifies and accelerates the development of database-backed web applications.
