Auto_complete by default uses full text search to the database.
That can be very slow if you your database is big...
so, let use memcached instead.
Make your Rails app faster with memcached. Part 1
Posted on December 13, 2007
. Make your Rails app faster with memcached. Part 1
In this article I describe how to make your application increase considerably in performance
Required Applications:
- cache_fu (plugin)
./script/plugin discover ./script/plugin install cache_fu
- memcache_client
gem install memcache_client
- memcached
(http://www.danga.com/memcached)