Ferret talk - Jan 2007 - Updating index when non-rails app creates entries?

I have a database shared between a Rails app (gui) and a Java app
(daemon). When the java app periodically updates the database, this
isn''t reflected in Ferret indexes visible via acts_as_ferret in Rails.
How do I trigger re-indexing? Do I just make my Java daemon delete the
index files, or is there something cleverer than that..?

Thanks!

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:09:31PM +0100, Scott Wilson
wrote:
> I have a database shared between a Rails app (gui) and a Java app
> (daemon). When the java app periodically updates the database, this
> isn''t reflected in Ferret indexes visible via acts_as_ferret in
Rails.
> How do I trigger re-indexing? Do I just make my Java daemon delete the
> index files, or is there something cleverer than that..?
you could have some backgroundrb process regularly check your records
for changes (i.e. by checking a ''to_index'' flag or just the
updated_at
value). That process could then call ferret_update on the records that
have been updated.

cheers,
Jens
 

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