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Hello, What happened to "clean_string" in QueryParser? Benjamin

Hey folks, Some good news. I''ve finished cFerret and it''s ruby bindings to the point where I can run all of the unit tests. I still have to work out how I''m going to package and release it but it shouldn''t be long now. If you can''t wait you might like to try it from the subversion repository. It''ll probably only work on linux at the moment and

...b/ferret/index.rb:709 in ''parse'' (thanks to the excellent exception_notification plugin for what you see above) So I did a little research into the Exception, which only left me with more questions. According to the RDoc for Ferret, the Ferret::QueryParser#new method has a :clean_string option that should escape any special characters, and by default it''s on. I emailed the author of aaf and he said that he doesn''t do anything with this flag, so it should still be on. In that case, why am I still seeing this exception? Jim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-fo...

Hello, I am trying to escape words for searching i.e., "hello". The key here is that the two L''s on "hello" are actually vertical bars. Is there a special function in Ferret or anywhere for that matter that will do the escaping of the Ferret special characters? Thanks in advance, Benjamin

...9;'m maybe not understanding the helper functions correctly, but I''m having a weird problem that seems like it shouldn''t be. I''m sanitizing some book names for url''s using my application helper: -- application helper def format_url(url) title = url clean_string(title) truncate(@title, 100, "") return title end def clean_string(str) str.gsub!(/\W+/, '' '') # all non-word chars to spaces str.strip! # ohh la la str.downcase! # str.gsub!(/\ +/, ''-'') # spaces to dashes, pre...

...@name not initialized lib/ferret/query_parser/query_parser.y:128: warning: method redefined; discarding old initialize lib/ferret/query_parser/query_parser.y:157: warning: method redefined; discarding old parse lib/ferret/query_parser/query_parser.y:216: warning: method redefined; discarding old clean_string /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubyful_soup-1.0.4/lib/rubyful_soup.rb:230: warning: method redefined; discarding old attrs discovered content extractor class: RDig::ContentExtractors::PdfContentExtractor discovered content extractor class: RDig::ContentExtractors::WordContentExtractor discovered co...