Is there a way set up synonyms about textacular HOT 5 CLOSED

I think you'd probably be looking for a dedicated full text search system for something like that. As I understand it, Postgres's FTS stuff is supposed to be reasonably good, but isn't meant to compete head-to-head with something like Sphinx or whatever on features. It's meant to be simpler to set up and maintain because it doesn't introduce a new piece of infrastructure into your system. However, it's possible I just don't know about this feature. You'll have to dive into the PG docs to find it, though, there's no interface in this gem for it, for sure.

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I think my synonym situations would be more edge case so implementing a new search system might be overkill.

I could probably just write a method of the few specific words that I want synonyms for. Something like "If search is equal to attorney return results for lawyer".

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The other thing you could do is add a field to the db where you toss words you want also searched. Like... if you're searching a paragraph of description of a job (I have no idea), you could look for those key words you want to alias and toss them in the new column, then search both at need (rather than running two searches). Depends on when you want to do the work, I guess.

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Yeah, that could work. Thanks for the input.

I love problem solving :)

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I'mma go ahead and close this. Happy to help. 😄

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