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Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense

60 points by adrianthedev 11mo ago

dewey 11mo ago
I’m going to give Typesense a try today. I’m just working on a Rails app and went from Meilisearch (which is great) to Elastic for some more complex aggregation queries but this seems like a good option for instant search like behavior too.
- adrianthedev 11mo ago
  yup. You should! The founder is also a great guy who cares about the Open Source community as well
Alifatisk 11mo ago
Glad to see the Avo project live and well! I previously used Opensearch for my Rails project, it was quite heavy piece of service to run in the docker compose environment. I said to my myself that on the next project, I will eitber use Typesense or Meilisearch. I'll bookmark this guide for when the time comes Regarding the command to create the Rails app, I would have done this for the playground project rails new typesense -d sqlite3 -c tailwind -j esbuild --skip-test --skip-jbuilder --skip-action-mailbox --skip-action-text
- adrianthedev 11mo ago
  I think I have a .railsrc file similar to your settings Are you a fellow Avo user yourself?
  - Alifatisk 11mo ago
    No, I haven't had the opportunity yet but it is on my list. But I am a subscriber of your Youtube channel and have been receiving updates through there
adenta 11mo ago
I love Jason Bosco (the typesense guy). I love Ruby on Rails. But I've been using Meilisearch more and more over the past year on client projects. They maintain a top of the line Rails integration: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-rails https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-rails
- sandreas 11mo ago
  MeiliSearch is the top thing to try on my list - did you use it in production environments? If so, how did the deployment go? And how is your experience about the minimum requirements for a stable search server? I would be very interested in a short user review...
- tharropoulos 11mo ago
  Member of the Typesense team here. As I'm not super versed in the Rails ecosystem, could you share some specifics on Meilisearch integration's features so we could take some inspiration on improving ours? Would love some feedback.
jprokay13 11mo ago
I’m debating Typesense vs. Meilisearch for a project. My use case isn’t particularly complex so either fits. Curious if anyone has any horror stories about either
- cpursley 11mo ago
  What’s wrong with just pushing Postgres as far as possible (you said it wasn’t complex)?
  - jprokay13 11mo ago
    yet again I reached for a dependency when Postgres is enough
tharropoulos 11mo ago
Typesense also maintains a native Rails integration (fork of Algolia's one). You can automatically index on write, conditionally index documents based on business logic and a bunch more. https://github.com/typesense/typesense-rails https://github.com/typesense/typesense-rails

60 points by adrianthedev 11mo ago

dewey 11mo ago

I’m going to give Typesense a try today. I’m just working on a Rails app and went from Meilisearch (which is great) to Elastic for some more complex aggregation queries but this seems like a good option for instant search like behavior too.

adrianthedev 11mo ago
yup. You should! The founder is also a great guy who cares about the Open Source community as well

Alifatisk 11mo ago

Glad to see the Avo project live and well! I previously used Opensearch for my Rails project, it was quite heavy piece of service to run in the docker compose environment. I said to my myself that on the next project, I will eitber use Typesense or Meilisearch. I'll bookmark this guide for when the time comes Regarding the command to create the Rails app, I would have done this for the playground project rails new typesense -d sqlite3 -c tailwind -j esbuild --skip-test --skip-jbuilder --skip-action-mailbox --skip-action-text

adrianthedev 11mo ago
I think I have a .railsrc file similar to your settings Are you a fellow Avo user yourself?
- Alifatisk 11mo ago
  No, I haven't had the opportunity yet but it is on my list. But I am a subscriber of your Youtube channel and have been receiving updates through there

adenta 11mo ago

I love Jason Bosco (the typesense guy). I love Ruby on Rails. But I've been using Meilisearch more and more over the past year on client projects. They maintain a top of the line Rails integration: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-rails https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-rails

sandreas 11mo ago
MeiliSearch is the top thing to try on my list - did you use it in production environments? If so, how did the deployment go? And how is your experience about the minimum requirements for a stable search server? I would be very interested in a short user review...
tharropoulos 11mo ago
Member of the Typesense team here. As I'm not super versed in the Rails ecosystem, could you share some specifics on Meilisearch integration's features so we could take some inspiration on improving ours? Would love some feedback.

jprokay13 11mo ago

I’m debating Typesense vs. Meilisearch for a project. My use case isn’t particularly complex so either fits. Curious if anyone has any horror stories about either

cpursley 11mo ago
What’s wrong with just pushing Postgres as far as possible (you said it wasn’t complex)?
- jprokay13 11mo ago
  yet again I reached for a dependency when Postgres is enough

tharropoulos 11mo ago

Typesense also maintains a native Rails integration (fork of Algolia's one). You can automatically index on write, conditionally index documents based on business logic and a bunch more. https://github.com/typesense/typesense-rails https://github.com/typesense/typesense-rails