Ultrasphinx has been updated to 1.5. Ultrasphinx is a Ruby on Rails configurator and client to the Sphinx fulltext search engine.

Changes in this version: Change layout of base files to allow overriding of more options. Allow sorting on text fields. 'function_sql' key for custom field mangling. Support setting text fields in 'filter'. Configurable finder method array. Support searching with empty query. Parser rewrite and some tests. And... facets.

More information is available at http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/ultrasphinx/ .