Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense
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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
Are you a fellow Avo user yourself?
I would be very interested in a short user review...
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.
Curious if anyone has any horror stories about either
https://github.com/typesense/typesense-rails