Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense

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Typesense is a typo-tolerant search engine optimized for instant search results under 50ms.
Typesense can be integrated into Rails applications using the Typesense gem.
Typesense concepts include Documents, Collections, Schema, Nodes, and Clusters.
A simple Rails application was built to demonstrate Typesense integration, featuring movie search functionality.
Typesense provides highlighting of search results out of the box.
Data synchronization between Rails models and Typesense indexes is handled via callbacks.
The typesense-rails gem simplifies integration by providing automatic indexing and search methods.
Pagination can be added using the Pagy gem with built-in support from typesense-rails.
Sorting functionality is configurable, allowing results to be ordered by fields like year in ascending or descending order.
Typesense offers advanced features like typo tolerance and vector search, making it a powerful alternative to database-backed search solutions.

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