Ferret is fast. He has moved around and the documentation is a bit sparse. Solr was created by people at CNET, used by Internet Archive, Krugle, Revolution Health, his projects: Collext, Blacklight. Findability – serendipity is great. You should be able to browse and discover stuff you didn’t intend to. Read Ambient Findability Lucene is…
Day: May 20, 2007
The Rails Way Jamis Buck, Michael Koziarski
Don’t forget to look at The Rails Way blog. Move logic into your model. This lets you break functionality into more granular components and makes testing easier. Keep your controllers skinny. Jamis blogged about this principle here. Use before filters to setup state before your controller runs. Use before_create in your models. ActiveSupport helps you…