# Acts as indexed suitable?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-indexed-suitable/158792>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 28, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-indexed-suitable/158792 "2009-01-28T01:19:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikec](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mikec](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mikec)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-indexed-suitable/158792/1 "2009-01-28T01:19:26Z")

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I’m using the acts as indexed to sort of implement a full text search  
for titles of stories. This is working perfectly, but it seems it  
stores these indexes in files. This worries me since I fear there may  
be a lot of IO which could be slow since it doesn’t seem to scale. Any  
comments on this are appreciated. Thanks!