Thinking Sphinx alternatives and related gems

Based on the "Search" category

• Searchkick

  9.1 9.3 L5 Thinking Sphinx VS Searchkick

  Searchkick learns what your users are looking for. As more people search, it gets smarter and the results get better. It’s friendly for developers

• ransack

  9.0 7.2 L4 Thinking Sphinx VS ransack

  Object-based searching.

• Sunspot

  8.8 6.5 Thinking Sphinx VS Sunspot

  A Ruby library for expressive, powerful interaction with the Solr search engine.

• Elasticsearch Rails

  8.6 1.5 Thinking Sphinx VS Elasticsearch Rails

  Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails

• Tire

  8.0 0.0 Thinking Sphinx VS Tire

  A rich Ruby API and DSL for the Elasticsearch search engine

• pg_search

  7.8 6.6 L3 Thinking Sphinx VS pg_search

  Builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL's full text search.

• elasticsearch-ruby

  7.7 7.7 L3 Thinking Sphinx VS elasticsearch-ruby

  Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch.

• chewy

  7.1 7.1 L4 Thinking Sphinx VS chewy

  High-level Elasticsearch Ruby framework based on the official elasticsearch-ruby client.

• Searchlogic

  6.5 0.0 L5 Thinking Sphinx VS Searchlogic

  Object based searching, common named scopes, and other useful named scope tools for ActiveRecord.

• has_scope

  6.3 5.5 L5 Thinking Sphinx VS has_scope

  Has scope allows you to easily create controller filters based on your resources named scopes.

• textacular

  4.8 4.0 L5 Thinking Sphinx VS textacular

  Exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacular extends ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun!

• SearchCop

  4.1 5.0 L5 Thinking Sphinx VS SearchCop

  Extends your ActiveRecord models to support fulltext search engine like queries via simple query strings and hash-based queries.

• Mongoid Search

  3.8 5.6 L5 Thinking Sphinx VS Mongoid Search

  Simple full text search implementation for Mongoid.

• scoped_search

  2.7 4.1 L5 Thinking Sphinx VS scoped_search

  Adds a scope supporting search queries and autocompletion against existing fields on ActiveRecord models and associations.

• Rroonga

  1.4 6.2 L3 Thinking Sphinx VS Rroonga

  The Ruby bindings of Groonga.

• elastics

  1.3 0.0 Thinking Sphinx VS elastics

  Simple ElasticSearch client with support for migrations and ActiveRecord integration.

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It's just the easiest way to communicate with Sphinx, the full text search engine. It may have some limitations in some edge cases, but in general, it covers mostly everything you will need.

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