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Hello, does anybody know how to implement a "Did you mean ...?" like Google with act_as_ferret? I think this is a possible way: 1. Generate a keyword-list (this is my difficulty. I don''t know how to build such a list from the index) with no stop-words from the first index. e. g. (car, ship, plant, house) 2. Build a second index from this word-list where we store the word in

Hi There! Im trying to install act_as ferret on win xp, with this environment: winXP ruby : 1.8.7 rails: 2.3.8 gem list: abstract (1.0.0) actionmailer (3.0.1, 2.3.8, 1.3.3) actionpack (3.0.1, 2.3.8, 2.3.2, 1.13.6, 1.13.3) actionwebservice (1.2.6, 1.2.3) activemodel (3.0.1) activerecord (3.0.1, 2.3.8, 2.3.2, 1.15.6, 1.15.3) activeresource (3.0.1, 2.3.8) activesupport (3.0.1, 2.3.8, 2.3.2, 1.4.4,

Hello, I wonder if its possible to combine ferret queries with find_by_sql queries? Or should I try to rewrite my query using find and then use find_by_content when I''m done? Thanks for a great product! Regards, henrik

Hello, My Ferret integration has gone quite well. I''m now returning all the results I need from two models using "id_multi_search" and combining the results in the view using a couple of partials. Is there any way that I can turn on fuzzy searching? Would fuzzy searching pick up basic spelling mistakes such as "Bnadit" instead of "Bandit" my experience

Hi, My name is santoshkumar r Patil. I am using ferret for searching. I am using mult_search for searching a query on multiple modal and there are different conditions on different model. EX User.multi_search(search_query+" AND NOT is_deleted:1 ",[Program],{:limit=>limit,:offset=>offset}) And I have to condition "is_visible = true" on program model. How can I modify

Hello, Im running rails 1.1.2 and ferret 0.9.3 and cant install act_as_ferret. I tryed the following instruction at act_as_ferret wiki: "Installation Please use script/plugin install svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/tags/plugin/stable/acts_as_ferret for easy installation of the current stable version of the plugin. At the moment this is version 0.2.1 based on Subversion Rev.

Hi all, Im a newbie to ferret.I have installed the act_as_ferret gem and i actually want to search for some content in the model,but per user. My model has data,user_id.So within the data column i have to serach for a word if it exists for a given user. So can i achieve that ? presently i know that it just searches the "data" column irrespective of the user given. Can someone help me

Hello, I''m having an error that occurs in production (on Dreamhost) but does not occur in development on my local machine. The situation is that there is a model (Article), and it uses act_as_ferret for search. The error is as follows (where I say {full server path}, that''s not what the error says, just my note): LoadError (Expected {full server path}/article.rb to define

I am trying to use SVN HEAD of Acts_as_ferret, and I have ferret 0.10.4installed from the windows Gem. Unfortuanantly, whenever I i let act_as_ferrets init.rb file require ferret, my app blows up, with weird "Invalid char" errors. I have pasted the page below. If I comment out the require ferret, the page loads. Of course, act_as_ferret does blow up. My unit tests do work fine however! I can query my model using the ferret calls....

Hi Everyone, I''ve a RoR application. I am trying to build full text search capability into it. I installed Ferret. After that I installed the act_as_ferret plugin. I''ve also put the acts_as_ferret inside the <model>.rb file . I''m using the find_by_contents to get the search results. I''m getting the following error. I''ve no clue and I

Hi! I want to index html files, but w/o the tags, so I was thinking either I remove them before I index it (expensive), or put up an RegExpAnalyzer. BTW, when using an analyzer, does that mean that everything which it declines (i.e. the RegExpAnalyzer doesn''t match) won''t be put into the index files (i.e. blows it up)? I came up with a simple test, which didn''t

Hi all :-) I''m experiencing strange document loss with Ferret 0.11.4 / Ruby 1.8.4. The index handles around 3000 documents, and sometimes during a query_update operation, the delete is done but not the add. That''s very random and happens after a lot of queries (many K). I''ve tried to look into Ferret''s C code, everything looks like going well, the add *LOOKS

Hello, I''ve installed the Ferret gem and also got the act_as_ferret code from the wiki. I''ve set up my model "Branch" to act as ferret using the code below. acts_as_ferret :options => {:fields => [''name'', ''body_text'', ''address'']} I''ve also set up a ferret_controller with the code below def find

Hi there from Germany, I just installed and set up ferret and act_as_ferret for rails. All of them at the most recent version. The development environment is running fine with Mac OS X. But I got problems with the productive environment (debian). In the (mysql-)database are few records stored, containig german umlauts (? for example). Running a query for "k?ln" returns the correct

Hello everybody! I try to install ferret gem in my local machine . It goes like this : [root at dhcppc2 ~]# gem install ferret Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org . complete Select which gem to install for your platform (i686-linux) 1. ferret 0.11.3 (ruby) 2. ferret 0.11.2 (ruby) 3. ferret 0.11.1 (ruby) >>1 Building native extensions. This could take a while...

hi, i''m trying ferret and acts_as_ferret, it''s good, but i''ve a little problem. i''ve a model book which has a title and a quantity, how can i search using act_as_ferret all books which quantity is > 0 ? and howand with a search like "book", how can i found also title like "books" ? and the last, if i search "bok", is it possible

Has anyone deployed ferret & act_as_ferret to a load balanced multiple server environment? If so, did you simply use a shared network index? I have a couple of ideas on how to deploy - but each have shortcomings and I''m hoping to find out if anyone else has deployed ferret in this manner. The application is simply load balanced between multiple servers running the same app for

Hello everyone, I was stress-testing my application (running on Rails via FastCGI) by letting two concurrent users (not human .. an app called ''siege'') a) save an Article and b) search for all Articles. I am searching via Article.ferret_index.search_each( ..) do |doc_id,score| doc = index[doc_id] .. end and writing via Article.ferret_index <<

I''d like to include the user name along with/instead of the session id in my log files. Is there a place to customize the log format, or do I just need to through the logger object and manually write it in a before_filter on my ApplicationController? Thanks. -- Jack Christensen jackc@hylesanderson.edu

I am using the act_as_ferret in my app. I want to know that if i have set the reindex_batch_size => 500 or something . can u guide me how it works means the batch_size or can anyone provide me with a link to go through that.. Thanks Ravi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: