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Innodb Locks, ActiveRecord and acts_as_ferret Problem

Started by Scoundrel · 9 months ago

Last few days one of our customers (one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites on the Net) was struggling to solve some really strange problem - once upon a time they were getting an error from ActiveRecord on their site:
(ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid) "Mysql::Error: Lock wait ... Continue reading »

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  • Frank Mashraqi

    1 year ago

    Question: Why is your client with "largest site" using acts_as_ferret in the first place?
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  • Scoundrel

    1 year ago

    Frank,

    AFAIU, they simply did not hear about nginx back then and started using what everyone else in Rails community was using - ferret. Later many people I know migrated away from ferret, but when our client was creating his service, ferret was one of the most popular SE solutions which have Ruby client libraries and/or Rails plugins.
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  • Frank Mashraqi

    1 year ago

    I understand. Have you evaluated Lucene as an option?

    Frank
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  • Scoundrel

    1 year ago

    At this point we've just decided to stick to the technology we've used to. I mean both customer and me use sphinx in many places and sphinx integration process looks much easier for us at this moment.
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  • Khaled Hassounah

    1 year ago

    check out solr and acts_as_solr...
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  • Michael Klishin

    1 year ago

    Nice. Has it been filed to Rails Trac? I'm actually digging AR sources and trying to help core team with fixes. So should I create ticket for this first or can you please point me to it?

    There's about 10 000 tickets in their Trac :(
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  • Scoundrel

    1 year ago

    2Michael: I've never filled it as a bug, cause' I wasn't sure that it is a bug. Feel free to file it in rails trac if you think it is.
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