Using MeiliSearch in a Production Rails Environment

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  • The 0.5.1 gem was never released to Ruby Gems so without the line above, you will get the 0.3 version which does not work. Yes they say that they have fixed this. And no they haven't (as of the writing of this blog post; Github Issue).

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  • When I found that I couldn't install ES on my Mac without messing about with the memory allocations because certain memory allocation options aren't available on Open Java platform, I started to get concerned. And then ES just proved to be increasingly byzantine to make work (perhaps this is me). So I was open to new search technologies and I quick perusal of the GoRails screencasts turned me onto MeiliSearch, a relatively new Rust based search engine.

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