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How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails
You don’t hear this one every day: I just made a critical database query 10x faster by moving the bulk of the complexity out of SQL and back into Ruby . This post will explain how I did it, plus how you can apply a similar approach to rethinking search in your own application.
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