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Tessa Davis
4,152 PointsSearch function on rails/heroku
Have finished my own web app using treehouse's lovely resources and I'd like to add a simple search function. I did it using sunspot but have then realised I need to pay $20/month for websolr to use it on heroku. Is there a free way to have a search function on my app? If not am I best to stick with sunspot (I've done it and it's working on my localhost?
Thanks
2 Answers
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherHey Tessa,
If you get really bold you can try running it on your own vps server such as Linode or MediaTemple. They're about the same price ($20/month) but you can run anything you want. However, you will have to set up and maintan the server yourself.
Tessa Davis
4,152 PointsThanks Jason. It took me about five hours just to work out how to put a list of my model attributes in alphabetical order - I suspect a VPN is far beyond my skillset!
I paid the $20 and it was very easy to get working. Thanks for the advice.
Justin Seidl
1,743 PointsJustin Seidl
1,743 PointsTessa do yo have a tutorial or an example of your setup? I'm new to Rails and would like to implement something like this for my application.