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I put together an autocomplete service using Ruby and Redis but rather than dealing with the network latency of a remote service I decided to package it up so it could be mounted along side my app: https://github.com/doomspork/autocomplete-me

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Yeah, where I work we use another redis + ruby gem that the seatgeek guys wrote called soulmate. https://github.com/seatgeek/soulmate

Cool! It seems a bit more flexible but it requires jQuery and the plugin itself is 11Kb.

The inclusion of a JS library is only a convenience. There more robust solutions for the UI like Twitter's Typeahead.js https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js

This is awesome, I hadn't seen it before. Thanks for sharing!

Heh, I always feel a bit bad when people mention this since we're not using it ourselves anymore. Though it's a nice and easy way to get going quickly if you're already running redis (and especially if you've got a rails app).

We're using elasticsearch now which is definitely a bit more of an operational headache.

Curious... why use Elasticsearch over Redis? We're currently using Elasticsearch, but were considering switching to Redis, but now I'm thinking maybe we shouldn't. What's the downside?

aw, you shouldn't feel bad... it's been awesome for us! :)

So, it loads all titles into the client?

Sorry I'm not sure I follow. There is no client included within my repo, just the service.

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