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Using MySQL Full Text Search with Rails

Posted by Zak Mandhro  Published in rails, ruby

MySQL offers powerful out-of-the-box full text search capability. It allows you to do advanced search on text columns such as:
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As of Rails 1.1.6, working with MySQL Full Text search is not that straight forward. The first problem is that Migrations doesn't support the SQL syntax for full text indexes. Your create table class [...]

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