# Recommendations for a Sphinx plugin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommendations-for-a-sphinx-plugin/126587>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 19, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommendations-for-a-sphinx-plugin/126587 "2008-01-19T22:37:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericgoodwin)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommendations-for-a-sphinx-plugin/126587/1 "2008-01-19T22:37:12Z")

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I’m familiar with a couple of sphinx plugins floating out there right  
now. I have a few simple needs.

1. It needs to work on Rails 1.2.5 (ultrasphinx on works on Rails \> 2)
2. I need to be able to easily search multiple indexes for search  
results so that the result set returns different AR classes which are of  
course sorted by the fields I specified to be searched.

Anybody have any good recommendations? I looked at acts\_as\_sphinx, but I  
don’t think it can search across two seperate models and return combined  
results for both.

I used to use acts\_as\_ferret which had a multi-search feature.