Is it possible to have one main ''index'', perhaps on a shared network drive, and have lots of instances of rails accessing it (though obviously with one db)? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Apr 2, 2007, at 16:46, Alex MacCaw wrote:> Is it possible to have one main ''index'', perhaps on a shared network > drive, and have lots of instances of rails accessing it (though > obviously with one db)?yes, omdb.org is doing exactly that.. and AAF allows you to index everything via a ''ferret server''. you can get more information about the implementation of the omdb.org ferret server (via backgroundrb) at http://bugs.omdb.org/browser/trunk/lib/omdb/ferret Ben