[Austinonrails] Meeting: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 @ 7-9PM [6:30 open]

[Britt Ballard]

Come out and join us for an evening of Rails on May 26. This month's edition

will be emcee will be Britt Ballard.

Full-Text Search—And Then Some—With Elasticsearch - Nick Zadrozny

Elasticsearch is one of the hot new datastores on the block. Why bother with the

extra moving parts? It's based on Lucene, purpose-built for search, and shares a

lineage with big data analytics tools. We'll start with a simple integration for

better back-end administrative search, covering some full-text search basics on

the way. Then we'll explore some of the interesting analytics capabilities

you'll get for free.

Nick is the founder of One More Cloud, the provider of Websolr and Bonsai,

hosting Apache Solr and Elasticsearch in the cloud. He's been working with Rails

for ten years, built his first naive SQL LIKE search into a Rails app some time

in 2006, and stumbled into hosting search for a living back in 2010.

Multi-table Full Text Search in Postgres - Caleb Thompson

Easily searching across an application’s data is a pervasive need. If you are

lucky, you can get away with simple sorting or searching on a single column, but

it is more likely that you need full text search across multiple models, all

from a single search `<input>`.

Thanks to the power of Postgres’ full text search, rolling your own search isn't

too difficult.

Following an actual feature evolution which I worked on for a client, we will

start with a search feature that queries a single column with LIKE and build up

to finding results across multiple columns on multiple tables using database

views, optimizing the query time with full text indices and representing the

results as a polymorphic association on an ActiveRecord model in Rails.

Caleb is one of the founding team members of Austin's local thoughtbot office.

He also helps run Keep Ruby Weird.

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*Rails Connections*

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*When and Where*

Join us at Capital Factory <http://capitalfactory.com/>, on the 16th floor
of the Austin Centre (Omni Hotel) downtown, on *April 28, 2015 from
6:30-9:00pm*.

*Socialization Practice*

We will adjourn after the meeting to BD Riley's <http://bdrileys.com/> on
6th Street for further conversations, good beverages, and community.

*Parking*
Capital Factory now offers parking at a reduced rate of $5 when you park in
the Omni parking lot. You must park after 6:00 p.m. A Capital Factory staff
member will be handing out tickets that let you park for $5. These tickets
are available up until the end of the meetup.

Look forward to seeing you there!