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Guess Dave wasn''t going to blow his own trumpet so someone else has to do it for him. An interesting interview with Dave that filled in the gaps on the About Me page I had asked about... http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/10/ruby-hacker-interview-dave-balmain.html -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Just a quick note for future reference - at least for me, ferret won''t work on Ruby 1.8.4. gem install ferret Successfully installed ferret-0.11.4-mswin32 ruby -v ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32] irb irb(main):001:0> require ''ferret'' A windows error message box appears - ruby.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point rb_w32_write could not be

...not be backwards compatible and would require users to either rebuild their indexes or change their code to keep the same stop-words settings. However, it would save a lot of confusion for people starting out with Ferret. So what do people think? Should stop-words be filtered by default? -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/

Hey guys, I''ve just removed the -fno-stack-protector flag from the release so those who had trouble because of this should now be able to install 0.11.2-rc3. If you have any problems with this release, please let me ASAP. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/

...otchas I should be aware of on Ubuntu. Please try the new version and let me know if you are still having problems with it. I have until the end of the week to work on Ferret as much as I need to so I''d like to deal with as many issues as possible within that time. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/

...ld_index, it fails randomly (works most of the time, but I''m sure some documents are not well indexed). It fails with messages like this one: failed adding 140823996. r_analysis.c:432 Thanks for any help. If you want to see how I''ve done it so far, go to http:// ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/168 Philippe April

Lucene''s standard analyzer splits words separater with underscores. Ferret doesn''t do this. For example, if I create an index with only document ''test_case'' and search for ''case'' it doesn''t find anything. Lucene on the other hand finds it. The same story goes for words separated by colons. Which analyzer should I use to emulate

i have this error when i try to install ferret C:\Documents and Settings\>gem install ferret Need to update 6 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org ...... complete Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. ruby extconf.rb install ferret creating Makefile nmake

Hi, I''m trying to use highlight ferret method with trunk aaf and 0.10.1 ferret. In my search display I use: Myindexedclass.ferret_index.searcher.highlight(@query, result_line.id, :content) * searcher is a protected method; how can I access to the searcher from aaf ? * is the doc id in aaf the same as my model id ? * is the first param, query, the string query or the query object ?

Hello, Ferret created a 4.5GB> index file. $ 4534029210 2007-02-26 12:46 _el.cfs The creation of the index went smoothly. Searching through this index also works fine. However whenever I try to get the contents of an indexed document I get an error when the document number is above 621108: irb(main):080:0> searcher[621108].load IOError: IO Error occured at <except.c>:79 in xraise

Hi German users, Can one of you guys give me a German Phrase that I can use to demonstrate tokenizing non-ascii text. Preferably something about 40 bytes long with lots of umlauts and perhaps a ?. Cheers, Dave

Hi, There is a problem with the way that acts_as_ferret verifies the index is valid. In ensure_index_exists it looks for a file named ''segments''. With the 0.11.0 release of ferret there is no file with this name. On my dummy application I have a ''segments.gen'' and ''segments_2y''. Changing the test to segments.gen fixes the problem that the

...hat the current version of Ferret is not backwards compatible. If you install the latest version you will need to rebuild your index from scratch. Having said that, I do recommend that everyone upgrade. The new version should be *MUCH* more stable. ** Try It ** $ sudo gem install ferret -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/

...t with. It has been developed on Linux so it should work fine there. Windows and Mac users beware. Also, the current version doesn''t allow you to extend Ferret. For example, you can''t write your own analyzer or filter. This will be rectified in the near future. http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ Dave Balmain == Description Ferret is a full port of the Apache Lucene searching and indexing library. It''s available as a gem so try it out! To get started quickly read the quick start at the project homepage; http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api http://ferret.davebalmain.com/a...

I''m using acts_as_ferret to index one of my rails models. Right after I start the app the first request that orders by some ferret field will take very long. Subsequent ones seem to be fast. I guess some caching is going on. Any tips on solving this? Pedro.

I am trying to use highlight, but I am getting this kind of thing: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.4/lib/ferret/index.rb:197:in `highlight'': IO Error occured at <except.c>:93 in xraise (IOError) Error occured in index.c:1222 - lazy_df_get_bytes len = -5, but should be greater than 0 from

I need to get a set of terms being indexed using Ferret. I used IndexReader.terms and it returns a list of TermEnum nicely. The only problem is that my analyzer includes a stemming filter. So now, the terms I''m getting back are all stemmed. Is there anyway to get the original unstemmed terms back from the index somehow? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...'t need to call flush anymore. This is very useful if you have multiple processes modifying the index as you might have in a Rails application. Also, it should now compile with the MSVC compiler on windows thanks to a patch from Anatol Pomozov. You can download it from here; http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/attachment/wiki/Windows/ferret_ext.so?format=raw And place it in the lib directory of your Ferret distribution. Cheers, Dave Changes: * Added lock finalizer. * Added :auto_flush option to Index::Index * Many speed optimizations * Fixed extension to compile on Windows.

...nt history. If anyone can narrow down a test case that can consistently segfault it would be a massive help. Also, if anyone can figure out what the problem is with Ferret on Windows that breaks Rails views with tabs in them, you''d be a hero to a lot of people. See you all soon, -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/

I can consistently segfault the 0.10.4 gem, so I''m trying to get the subversion version working with hopes towards tracking the problem down. I have a fresh SVN checkout but: a) the version (in ferret.rb) claims to be 0.9.6; and b) Ferret::Index::FieldInfos and a couple other classes are missing at run time. It looks like this is because they''re not exported in the C