You may be asking yourself "why didn't this idiot just use Sphinx, Xapian or Hyper Estraier?". The decision to use MySQL Full-Text Search was based on the fact that this is a smallish project with minimal full-text searching needs. I felt that the requirements didn't warrant downloading/compiling/installing software, monitoring daemons/processes, rebuilding indices, and all the other crap that comes with the big boys of full-text indexing. Don't get me wrong I love Sphinx and Xapian, having used both on several projects, but I wanted something with a little less ceremony. Plus I'm always up for learning something new.
The first thing you need to do is convert the storage engine from the Rails default **In