I would like to generate a Lucene index in Java (of plain text values only,) and be able to use that index in ferret. I''ve seen many mixed answers to this question, so I''m hoping some of you can help. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On 3/6/07, Joe Stelmach <joestelmach at gmail.com> wrote:> I would like to generate a Lucene index in Java (of plain text values > only,) and be able to use that index in ferret. I''ve seen many mixed > answers to this question, so I''m hoping some of you can help. > > Thanks!Hi Joe, Firstly, why do you want to generate the index with Java. I just want to make sure that performance isn''t the reason, because you''ll probably get better performance with Ferret. If there is another reason you want to use Java to build the index then unfortunately there is no way to read the index with Ferret. Ferret now uses a very different index file format. But all is not lost. Look at solr-ruby. This will allow you to use your Lucene indexes from Ruby. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/
Thanks for the fast reply Dave. I''m working on a system that does some back-end processing in Java, but uses Rails on the front end. I''d really like to ditch Java completely, but the Threading support in Ruby is very limiting (at least as far as I understand it,) so I''m stuck trying to glue the pieces together. Thanks for the solr tip - I''ll see if that can help me... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
solr-ruby is a library to connect, of course, Solr to Ruby. So you won''t be ditching Java to go to Solr, but rather running the Solr Java-based web application via a Java web container (Jetty, Tomcat, Resin, or other). Solr is incredibly scalable and fast. And handles any number of connections at a time for both reading and writing. Erik On Mar 6, 2007, at 12:32 AM, Joe Stelmach wrote:> Thanks for the fast reply Dave. > > I''m working on a system that does some back-end processing in Java, > but > uses Rails on the front end. I''d really like to ditch Java > completely, > but the Threading support in Ruby is very limiting (at least as far > as I > understand it,) so I''m stuck trying to glue the pieces together. > > Thanks for the solr tip - I''ll see if that can help me... > > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > Ferret-talk at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk