# Partial text search using ferret search

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/partial-text-search-using-ferret-search/113450>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 31, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/partial-text-search-using-ferret-search/113450 "2007-08-31T06:50:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![santoshat20007](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@santoshat20007](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/santoshat20007)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/partial-text-search-using-ferret-search/113450/1 "2007-08-31T06:50:16Z")

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Hi,

I have gone through the ferret search engine which is full-text search.  
Is there any way to make partial text search using ferret search engine  
or is there any other engine for partial text search

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**Author:** ![santoshat20007](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@santoshat20007](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/santoshat20007)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/partial-text-search-using-ferret-search/113450/2 "2007-08-31T17:13:03Z")

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On Aug 30, 9:50 pm, Santosh R patil [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> ## I have gone through the ferret search engine which is full-text search. Is there any way to make partial text search using ferret search engine or is there any other engine for partial text search
> 
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

can you clearly state what capability you were looking for in ferret?  
Is it faceted browsing, wher e you combine SQL logic with search  
capabilities (stemming, stopwords, tokenizer/analyzer)?