Patrick Lenz has announced his acts_as_searchable plugin which integrates ActiveRecord models with HyperEstraier, an open source fulltext search engine.

It’s available as a gem so you can just do sudo gem install acts_as_searchable.

You can then take a look at the API docs, which provide a few examples.

Full text searching just got as simple as:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

  acts_as_searchable

end</p>
Article.fulltext_search(‘biscuits AND gravy’)

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