# Faceted Navigation & Search **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 18, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/faceted-navigation-search/183660 "2010-02-18T13:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnnybutler7)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/faceted-navigation-search/183660/1 "2010-02-18T13:09:05Z")
All, I need an amazon like menu system so you can drill down categories, price ranges, etc etc until you eventually find what you want. Then what i would like is a direct link to this product so if you send it to a user they can find what you were looking at it. Ive done some searching and not really found anything. It will be a mixture of text searching with or without. Is there any plugins, techniques out there already that work with rails JB ---
**Author:** ![johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnnybutler7)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/faceted-navigation-search/183660/2 "2010-02-20T12:20:10Z")
I have used Solr for achieving this. And it works like a charm. Though I had implemented this using Java API, I have heard a lot of good things about the Ruby API as well. Another contender would be thinking-sphinx[http://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx](http://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx) . Check - [Solr-ruby - Solr - Apache Software Foundation](http://wiki.apache.org/solr/solr-ruby) & [Category: Rails Search - The Ruby Toolbox](http://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_search.html) [http://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails\_search.html](http://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_search.html)regards, aakash