Ferret talk - Sep 2006 - bad interaction of ferret (0.10.5) and mongrel on linux

We have an application that uses Ferret and acts_as_ferret that we  
just upgraded to Ferret 0.10.5 (from 0.9.5) and the corresponding  
version of the acts_as_ferret.  Everything works as expected on my  
laptop, which is running mongrel 0.3.13.3.  When I deploy the  
application on our server, which is running some version of Red Hat  
Linux, I can''t get Ferret to work at all when running under mongrel  
(again, version 0.3.13.3).  Oddly, everything works fine if I open a  
console and rebuild the index or run a search.

  When I access the site via the web and try to modify a document  
that triggers indexing, I get the following error:

A NoMethodError occurred in questions#update_faq:

   undefined method `new'' for Ferret::Document:Module
   [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/instance_methods.rb: 
110:in `to_doc''

  When I try to run a search, I get no results at all even though the  
documents are indexed. (I can run searches fine from the Rails console.)

  Anyone ever seen anything like this?  I have no idea what it is  
about the ferret/mongrel/Linux combination that''s causing these  
problems.

  --Rafe

Hi !

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:23:14AM -0400, Rafe Colburn
wrote:
>   We have an application that uses Ferret and acts_as_ferret that we  
> just upgraded to Ferret 0.10.5 (from 0.9.5) and the corresponding  
> version of the acts_as_ferret.  Everything works as expected on my  
> laptop, which is running mongrel 0.3.13.3.  When I deploy the  
> application on our server, which is running some version of Red Hat  
> Linux, I can''t get Ferret to work at all when running under
mongrel
> (again, version 0.3.13.3).  Oddly, everything works fine if I open a  
> console and rebuild the index or run a search.
> 
>   When I access the site via the web and try to modify a document  
> that triggers indexing, I get the following error:
> 
> A NoMethodError occurred in questions#update_faq:
> 
>    undefined method `new'' for Ferret::Document:Module
>    [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/instance_methods.rb: 
> 110:in `to_doc''
> 
>   When I try to run a search, I get no results at all even though the  
> documents are indexed. (I can run searches fine from the Rails console.)
> 
>   Anyone ever seen anything like this?  I have no idea what it is  
> about the ferret/mongrel/Linux combination that''s causing these  
> problems.
is it possible that there is an old Ferret 0.9.x still lying around on
your server ? imho in 0.9.x Ferret::Document was a module, and
Ferret::Document::Document was the class. In 0.10.x Ferret::Document 
is a class.

I have different versions of Ferret and aff running with Mongrel without
any problem.

Jens


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Ignore this question -- as it turns out Mongrel had not been  
restarted after the Gem was updated.

  --Rafe

On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Rafe Colburn wrote:
>   We have an application that uses Ferret and acts_as_ferret that we
> just upgraded to Ferret 0.10.5 (from 0.9.5) and the corresponding
> version of the acts_as_ferret.  Everything works as expected on my
> laptop, which is running mongrel 0.3.13.3.  When I deploy the
> application on our server, which is running some version of Red Hat
> Linux, I can''t get Ferret to work at all when running under
mongrel
> (again, version 0.3.13.3).  Oddly, everything works fine if I open a
> console and rebuild the index or run a search.