Thinking Sphinx VS ransack

Compare Thinking Sphinx vs ransack and see what are their differences.

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Thinking Sphinx ransack
0 7
1,622 5,575
- 0.5%
1.7 7.0
29 days ago 1 day ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Thinking Sphinx

Posts with mentions or reviews of Thinking Sphinx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Thinking Sphinx yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

ransack

Posts with mentions or reviews of ransack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-12.
  • ransack VS Searchkick - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 12 Aug 2021
  • Airtable-like table filtering
    3 projects | /r/rails | 24 Mar 2021
    I use ransack for this and find it very powerful and flexible without the need to rely on complex JS.
  • An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    First of all, you should take a look at Active Admin's documentation regarding filters. You can continue your overview with the official README and wiki, where, among other things, you can find view-helpers to create custom search forms.
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    For especially complicated cases, you can consider learning how to create custom predicates and Ransackers - extensions that convert parameters directly into Arel (internal library ActiveRecord, used to build SQL queries).
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    The postfix _cont is one of the many predicates available in Ransack. Predicates determine which SQL query is to be generated for search. You can read more about all available predicates in the official wiki.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Thinking Sphinx and ransack you can also consider the following projects:

pg_search - pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search

Searchkick - Intelligent search made easy

Elasticsearch Rails - Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails

Sunspot - Solr-powered search for Ruby objects

elasticsearch-ruby - Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch

SearchCop - Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord

active-date-range - Powerful DateRanges for Ruby and ActiveSupport

has_scope - Map incoming controller parameters to named scopes in your resources

Mongoid Search - Simple full text search for Mongoid ORM

textacular - Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacular will extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun!