Ferret talk - Sep 2007 - Can''t disable ferret when running in Mongrel

In my environment.rb I say the following:

MyModel.disable_ferret
puts MyModel.ferret_enabled?

The console works as expected:

script/console
false
 >> MyModel.ferret_enabled?
=> false

I can then edit an instance, ferret remains disabled and the changes  
are not immediately indexed.

However, when I start mongrel Ferret is initially disabled, but then  
somehow becomes enabled again after the first request. I don''t  
explicitly enable ferret anywhere.

Here is my ferret config for the model in question:

   acts_as_ferret( { :remote => true, :index_dir => "#{AAF_INDEX}/ 
supplier", :fields => { :supplier => { :store => :yes }, :name
=>
{:store => :yes}, :private_description => {}, :title => {},
                                                                     :ur 
l => { :store => :yes }, :description => { :boost => 10.0 },
                                                                     :su 
pplier_id => { :store => :yes }, :supplier_name => { :boost => 10.0
},
                                                                     :ke 
ywords => { :boost => 10.0 }, :data => {}, :extract => {}, :city
=> {},
                                                                     :st 
ate => {} } } )


Does anyone have any idea what could reenable ferret?

Thanks,
Erik

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:37:55PM -0400, Erik Morton
wrote:
> In my environment.rb I say the following:
> 
> MyModel.disable_ferret
> puts MyModel.ferret_enabled?
> 
> The console works as expected:
> 
> script/console
> false
>  >> MyModel.ferret_enabled?
> => false
> 
> I can then edit an instance, ferret remains disabled and the changes  
> are not immediately indexed.
> 
> However, when I start mongrel Ferret is initially disabled, but then  
> somehow becomes enabled again after the first request. I don''t  
> explicitly enable ferret anywhere.
is this happening in development or production mode? This might be an
issue with the class reloading done in development mode, where the class
is reloaded, but environment.rb isn''t parsed again.

Cheers,
Jens

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That was the problem. Sounds obvious now. Thanks again.

Erik
On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Jens Kraemer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:37:55PM -0400, Erik Morton wrote:
>> In my environment.rb I say the following:
>>
>> MyModel.disable_ferret
>> puts MyModel.ferret_enabled?
>>
>> The console works as expected:
>>
>> script/console
>> false
>>>> MyModel.ferret_enabled?
>> => false
>>
>> I can then edit an instance, ferret remains disabled and the changes
>> are not immediately indexed.
>>
>> However, when I start mongrel Ferret is initially disabled, but then
>> somehow becomes enabled again after the first request. I don''t
>> explicitly enable ferret anywhere.
>
> is this happening in development or production mode? This might be an
> issue with the class reloading done in development mode, where the  
> class
> is reloaded, but environment.rb isn''t parsed again.
>
> Cheers,
> Jens
>
> -- 
> Jens Kr?mer
> http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog
> http://www.omdb.org/     - The new free film database
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 03:14:21PM -0400, Erik Morton
wrote:
> That was the problem. Sounds obvious now. Thanks again.
Ok. Now how do you deal with this?

I''d probably do something like this in application.rb:

before_filter :disable_ferret if RAILS_ENV == ''development''
def disable_ferret
  MyModel.disable_ferret
end

Not nice but should do until aaf gets a proper config mechanism that
allows setting variables in environment.rb that are read whenever
acts_as_ferret is called.

While I think of it - maybe a simple :readonly => true switch for the
acts_as_ferret method would be even more straightforward instead of
calling MyModel.disable_ferret in environment.rb?

Cheers,
Jens


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http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog
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