[HN Gopher] Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense
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       Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense
        
       Author : adrianthedev
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2025-10-08 07:58 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | dewey wrote:
       | I'm going to give Typesense a try today. I'm just working on a
       | Rails app and went from Meilisearch (which is great) to Elastic
       | for some more complex aggregation queries but this seems like a
       | good option for instant search like behavior too.
        
         | adrianthedev wrote:
         | yup. You should! The founder is also a great guy who cares
         | about the Open Source community as well
        
       | Alifatisk wrote:
       | Glad to see the Avo project live and well!
       | 
       | 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
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       | rails new typesense -d sqlite3 -c tailwind -j esbuild --skip-test
       | --skip-jbuilder --skip-action-mailbox --skip-action-text
        
         | adrianthedev wrote:
         | I think I have a .railsrc file similar to your settings
         | 
         | Are you a fellow Avo user yourself?
        
           | Alifatisk wrote:
           | No, I haven't had the opportunity yet but it is on my list.
           | But I am a subscriber of your Youtube channel and have been
           | receiving updates through there
        
       | adenta wrote:
       | I love Jason Bosco (the typesense guy). I love Ruby on Rails. But
       | I've been using Meilisearch more and more over the past year on
       | client projects. They maintain a top of the line Rails
       | integration: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-rails
        
         | sandreas wrote:
         | MeiliSearch is the top thing to try on my list - did you use it
         | in production environments? If so, how did the deployment go?
         | And how is your experience about the minimum requirements for a
         | stable search server?
         | 
         | I would be very interested in a short user review...
        
       | jprokay13 wrote:
       | I'm debating Typesense vs. Meilisearch for a project. My use case
       | isn't particularly complex so either fits.
       | 
       | Curious if anyone has any horror stories about either
        
         | cpursley wrote:
         | What's wrong with just pushing Postgres as far as possible (you
         | said it wasn't complex)?
        
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