Ferret talk - Apr 2008 - Picolena, a ferret+rails documents search engine

Hi everybody!

I am proud to present you a small project I have been working on for a
while:
Picolena, a documents search engine written in Rails.
( http://picolena.devjavu.com/ ).

It obviously uses Ferret for indexing and searching, and adds some plain
text extractors in order to index OOffice.org, pdf and MS Office
documents (and some others as well).

Everything is packed in a gem (gem install picolena), with a few rake
tasks, a multi-threaded indexer, a language guesser, a rails frontend
and some specs to be sure everything works fine.

I would love to hear some feedback from acts_as_ferret developers or
users!
My project is in now way supposed to be a competitor of AAF: we have
different goals (ActiveRecord indexing plugin vs. stand-alone rails-app
for documents indexing), but still a lot in common.

I dare say Picolena would be useful in a lot of companies (as a
google-mini alternative), and has already been working in production for
a few months without a hitch. This has been made possible thanks to
Ferret''s incredible speed. Kudos to the devs!

Best regards,
Eric


demo website : http://citynet.hft-stuttgart.de:4000/
trac         : http://picolena.devjavu.com
rubyforge    : http://rubyforge.org/projects/picolena/
svn repo     : http://svn.devjavu.com/picolena/trunk/
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Hey Eric,
I''ve looked at the demo and am quite impressed. Thanks for making your
code
available!!

Cheers,

Jan

2008/4/20 Eric Duminil <eric.duminil at gmail.com>:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I am proud to present you a small project I have been working on for a
> while:
> Picolena, a documents search engine written in Rails.
> ( http://picolena.devjavu.com/ ).
>
> It obviously uses Ferret for indexing and searching, and adds some plain
> text extractors in order to index OOffice.org, pdf and MS Office
> documents (and some others as well).
>
> Everything is packed in a gem (gem install picolena), with a few rake
> tasks, a multi-threaded indexer, a language guesser, a rails frontend
> and some specs to be sure everything works fine.
>
> I would love to hear some feedback from acts_as_ferret developers or
> users!
> My project is in now way supposed to be a competitor of AAF: we have
> different goals (ActiveRecord indexing plugin vs. stand-alone rails-app
> for documents indexing), but still a lot in common.
>
> I dare say Picolena would be useful in a lot of companies (as a
> google-mini alternative), and has already been working in production for
> a few months without a hitch. This has been made possible thanks to
> Ferret''s incredible speed. Kudos to the devs!
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
>
> demo website : http://citynet.hft-stuttgart.de:4000/
> trac         : http://picolena.devjavu.com
> rubyforge    : http://rubyforge.org/projects/picolena/
> svn repo     : http://svn.devjavu.com/picolena/trunk/
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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