Ferret talk - Mar 2007 - Problem with setting up remote indexing

Hello,

I have been trying to set up the remote indexing for acts_as_ferret and
followed the guide here:
http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/wiki/DrbServer
I added :remote => true to my models and then specified host and port
for the production environment.

After defining the host/port for production, I tried to run my
development server and received the following error:
vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/act_methods.rb:66:in
`acts_as_ferret'':
You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! (NoMethodError)
You might have expected an instance of Array.

Isn''t it supposed to work just fine even though we don''t
specify neither
the development nor the test environment in the ferret_server.yml?

Anyways, I then decided to specify development environment in the
ferret_server.yml
Here is how it''s setup:
development:
  host: localhost
  port: 3000 (my rails app port)

Sure enough I don''t get that error anymore and my development server
boots up just fine.

However, when I executed my search it didn''t work (I use
id_multi_search
btw so need to add :store_class_name => true to my models as well). The
following is the error description:

DRb::DRbConnError (too large packet 1213486160):
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:573:in `load''
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:632:in `recv_reply''
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:921:in `recv_reply''
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1195:in `send_message''
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1086:in `method_missing''
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1170:in `open''
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1085:in `method_missing''
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1103:in `with_friend''
    C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1084:in `method_missing''
    C:/work/myapp/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/remote_index.rb:25:in
`id_multi_search''
    C:/work/myapp/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/class_methods.rb:117:in
`id_multi_search''
    C:/work/myapp/lib/ferret_search.rb:73:in `quick_search''
...

Any clue guys?

Thank you in advance for the help.

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:16:04AM +0200, Harman Sandjaja
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to set up the remote indexing for acts_as_ferret and
> followed the guide here:
> http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/wiki/DrbServer
> I added :remote => true to my models and then specified host and port
> for the production environment.
> 
> After defining the host/port for production, I tried to run my
> development server and received the following error:
> vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/act_methods.rb:66:in
`acts_as_ferret'':
> You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! (NoMethodError)
> You might have expected an instance of Array.
> 
> Isn''t it supposed to work just fine even though we don''t
specify neither
> the development nor the test environment in the ferret_server.yml?
> 
> Anyways, I then decided to specify development environment in the
> ferret_server.yml
> Here is how it''s setup:
> development:
>   host: localhost
>   port: 3000 (my rails app port)
I guess that''s the problem, this port is *not* the rails app port, but
the port the DRb server will listen on. it needs to be a free, unused
port on the machine where the DRb server should run. Also be sure to
start the drb server with script/ferret_start .

Jens

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Thank you for the reply Jens!

What I''m trying to do is to only use the DRb server in the production 
environment (not in development nor test).

So I removed the development and test sections in the 
config/ferret_server.yml

But I''m getting this error instead:
vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/act_methods.rb:66:in
`acts_as_ferret'':
You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! (NoMethodError)
You might have expected an instance of Array.

Sorry for not being clear enough in my post earlier.

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:43:12PM +0200, Harman Sandjaja
wrote:
> Thank you for the reply Jens!
> 
> What I''m trying to do is to only use the DRb server in the
production
> environment (not in development nor test).
> 
> So I removed the development and test sections in the 
> config/ferret_server.yml
> 
> But I''m getting this error instead:
> vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/act_methods.rb:66:in
`acts_as_ferret'':
> You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! (NoMethodError)
> You might have expected an instance of Array.
> 
> Sorry for not being clear enough in my post earlier.
does changing the load method of ferret_server.rb (around line 18) to
this help?

# reads connection settings from config file
def load(file = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/ferret_server.yml")
  config = DEFAULTS.merge(YAML.load(ERB.new(IO.read(file)).result))
  if config = config[RAILS_ENV]
    config[:uri] =
"druby://#{config[''host'']}:#{config[''port'']}"
    return config
  end
  return {}  # add this line
end

Jens

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Hi Jens,
> does changing the load method of ferret_server.rb (around line 18) to
> this help?
Yes it does. Thank you so much for the help.

Best regards,
Harman

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On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:49:34PM +0200, Harman Sandjaja
wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> > does changing the load method of ferret_server.rb (around line 18) to
> > this help?
> 
> Yes it does. Thank you so much for the help.
ok, this is fixed now in trunk, too.

Jens

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> ok, this is fixed now in trunk, too.
Yup I updated already.

Thanks again! =)

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Harman Sandjaja wrote:
>> ok, this is fixed now in trunk, too.
> 
> Yup I updated already.
> 
> Thanks again! =)
When will this be released?

cheers

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:45:25AM +0200, Levent wrote:
> Harman Sandjaja wrote:
> >> ok, this is fixed now in trunk, too.
> > 
> > Yup I updated already.
> > 
> > Thanks again! =)
> 
> When will this be released?
I hope to release 0.4.1 by sunday.

jens

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