# Lovely ruby powered Search - thanks guys for all the help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lovely-ruby-powered-search-thanks-guys-for-all-the-help/102698>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 26, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lovely-ruby-powered-search-thanks-guys-for-all-the-help/102698 "2007-02-26T02:55:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_old)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lovely-ruby-powered-search-thanks-guys-for-all-the-help/102698/1 "2007-02-26T02:55:35Z")

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[http://www.teenwag.com/search?q=sports+illustrated&btn=Search](http://www.teenwag.com/search?q=sports+illustrated&btn=Search)

[http://www.teenwag.com/search?q= +Antonella+Barba&btn=Search](http://www.teenwag.com/search?q=%09+Antonella+Barba&btn=Search)  
[http://www.teenwag.com/search?q= +Anna+Nicole+smith&btn=Search](http://www.teenwag.com/search?q=%09+Anna+Nicole+smith&btn=Search)

Accelarated and GZIP compressed  
Served deliciously by Lighttpd  
Ruby on rails 5  
Search engine driven by Ferret  
AJAX by prototype  
Index size 42 million  
average time per search request is .01 sec  
App about 3 times faster than PHP  
about 5 times faster than mod\_python + twisted  
love factor - love ruby  
thanks guys for all the help