Ruby on Rails plugin to easily perform full-text searches using MySQL

For those of you using Rails on PostgreSQL 8.3+, you might be interested in using PGSQL's integrated full-text-search capabilities with this plugin, although it's not yet release quality:

http://code.google.com/p/acts-as-tsearch/

Acts_as_ferret works okay, but when you run into a lot of writes (the problem the poster had), you have to run it with its built in DRb server to resolve the issues.

I'm frustrated with ferret, sphinx and so on..so I needed something functional..and this one works great! Well done Michele..thanks!