It's a pretty straightforward process. Download the source and compile it. There isn't a package for it so here are the commands. wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz tar xzvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz cd sphinx-0.9.8.1/ ./configure...

To use the jQuery javascript framework in a Rails application, that also uses the Prototype framework for the same application, you'll need to reassign the $() function for jQuery to another variable. This is very simple to do. Just make sure to include t...

Workshop Dog is a free events calendar for dog training workshops and group lessons. Users can list their training workshops as well as create a business profile. Jobs may be posted to the site for a small fee. Events that are created are distributed to...

In Rails 3 files in lib/ are no longer loaded by default. It's a snap to auto load these classes by adding the following line to config/application.rb config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib) This is commented out around line 16. Either rep...

Ferret is a full text search engine based on the popular Lucene Engine, which is originally written for Java. There is a great tutorial available here: http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial Assuming you have the plugin installed, act...