Engine Yard, the leader in cloud deployment and open-source tools for Ruby and Rails applications, today announced the first major release of its open-source framework, Merb

Merb is designed for building fast, high performance Ruby applications. Ruby on Rails is more featured while Merb aims to be simpler and more modular.
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Ferret: is a Ruby high-performance text search engine library based on Apache Lucene. The ferret full text engine is fast, flexible, but needs more programming than MySQL full text index.

Installing Ferret is easy:

gem install ferret

If you take a look at the guts of what ferret is, you’ll notice it’s a small amount of Ruby code bound into a large amount of C code. Ferret was designed for use with Ruby in mind, not particularly Ruby on Rails, and if you look at the Ferret API you’ll notice there’s a pretty good Ferret Tutorial if you’re hardcore.
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