Web applications often have the need to do text searches against data stored in a database. While the built in MySQL and PostgresSQL functions for full text searching work, they are often not the best solutions for fast and complex full text searching.

Ruby Gemとは何か？

gemはRubyアプリケーション、またはライブラリのパッケージで、名前(例えばrails)とバージョン(例えば2.3.0)を持っています。

gemはコンピュータ上でRubyGemsライブラリに含まれるgemコマンドを用いて管理されます。同様にgemコマンドを使ってgemパッケージをインストールしたり、削除したり、（たくさんの中から）検索したりできます。

Everybody knows about The Placebo Effect™.

That’s what happens when you think you’re taking a medicine that will help you, and it does help you—but it turns out that it was a sugar pill, not a medicine at all.

It was discovered by a clever, desperate nurse during World War II. She was running out of morphine to give an injured soldier, so she lied. She told him he was getting drugs, but he was really getting saltwater.

And it worked.

Together with our friends at Eden Development, Unboxed Consulting and Skills Matter, Brightbox will be sponsoring LRUG events for the next few months.