ActsAsFulltextable ================== It allows you to create an auxiliary to be used for full-text searches. It behaves like a polymorphic association, so it can be used with any ActiveRecord model. See http://blog.wonsys.net/posts/26-our-first-plugin-acts_as_fulltextable/ and http://code.google.com/p/wonsys/ Bug tracker: http://wonsysos.16bugs.com/ Only tested with MySQL 5.x == Step 1 Install the plugin: script/plugin install http://wonsys.googlecode.com/svn/plugins/acts_as_fulltextable/ == Step 2 Add the following code to the model that should be included in searches: acts_as_fulltextable :fields, :to, :include, :in, :index == Step 3 Create the migration: script/generate fulltext_rows model1 model2 model3 ... Then execute it: rake db:migrate == Run searches You can either run a search on a single model: Model.find_fulltext('query to run', :limit => 10, :offset => 0) Or you can run it on more models at once: FulltextRow.search('query to run', :only => [:only, :this, :models], :limit => 10, :offset => 0) == Warning Should you add acts_as_fulltextable to a new model after the initial migration was run, you should execute the following piece of code (a migration or script/console are both fine): NewModel.find(:all).each {|i| i.create_fulltext_record} It will add all of the model's instances to the index. == Contact us If you experience any issues, please file a bug report at: http://wonsysos.16bugs.com/