Fresh Forever
Three bugs in the same twenty lines, each one created by the fix before it. The last was the good one: two behaviours that are correct on their own, and toge...
PostgreSQL
Before Adding Elasticsearch, Find the Bottleneck
Years ago I added Elasticsearch to a Rails app and search got faster. I credited the search engine. Looking back, I’m not sure that was the lesson. Here is h...
Full-Text Search in Rails with PostgreSQL
Before reaching for Elasticsearch, it’s worth knowing that PostgreSQL has capable full-text search built in. Here’s how to use it from a Rails app — tokenizi...