Problem description and motivation There is a lot of software (both Rails related and unrelated) which rely on servers or daemons. To name a few, in no particular order: Ultrasphinx, a Rails library for full-text searching. It makes use the Sphinx search software for indexing and searching. Indexing is done by running a command, while searching is done by querying the Sphinx search server. acts_as
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