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...itions to this release. You can now access the Filter#bits method of the built in filters so you can can use them in your own code, possibly within your own custom filters. For example you could implement a custom filter like so: class MultiFilter < Hash def bits(index_reader) bit_vector = Ferret::Utils::BitVector.new.not! filters = self.values filters.each {|filter| bit_vector.and!(filter.bits(index_reader))} bit_vector end end And you would use it like this: mf = MultiFilter.new mf[:category] = category_filter mf[:country] = country...

Hi i''m using ferret to enable geographical postcode. I take a postcode and distance in miles from the user, strip off the outcode and then retrieve the associated x y coordinates in metres from the db. Then i get two temp x''s and y''s and search for all results that are within the box, see code below. Problems start to occur when i search on big distances so for

I was trying to install ferret 0.9.2 on solaris (SunOS 5.8) which does not have a sys/dir.h nix_io.c:5:21: sys/dir.h: No such file or directory make: *** [nix_io.o] Error 1 I couldn''t find an obvious way around this... any suggestions? Thanks, Rich Marisa Cornell Information Technologies Cornell University