# Rails search engine without additional running server?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-search-engine-without-additional-running-server/172828>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 28, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-search-engine-without-additional-running-server/172828 "2009-07-28T17:49:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![ray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@ray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ray)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-search-engine-without-additional-running-server/172828/1 "2009-07-28T17:49:42Z")

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Is this possible? I’ve looked at ferret and was dismayed to find that  
it has some major issues with index corruption. Is this still the  
case?

Are my only alternatives to date Sphinx and Solr? I don’t wish to  
setup a java server (seems to defeat the purpose of going with RoR in  
the first place). Anyone have experiences with both can can say one  
is comparatively better than the other (in terms of bugs and gotchas.)

Ray