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When trying to start ferret with capistrano, I keep getting this: $ cap services:ferret:stop domain [redken.digitalpulp.com] : user [john] : * executing `services:ferret:stop'' * executing "cd /srv/rails/redken/current; script/ferret_server -e production stop" servers: ["redken.digitalpulp.com"] Password: [redken.digitalpulp.com] executing command *** [err :: redken.digi...

I''m having problems getting the DRb server running with the aaf gem. I tried it with the plugin installed in my application, and it worked. I suspect the problem has something to do with the startup scripts expecting certain files to be in certain relative file paths. Any insights are appreciated, and maybe if you have time you can update the wiki document :) Thanks for a great

I had sort-by-date working almost perfectly with my app. It was behaving as expected for most data, but had a few hiccups with certain data. I investigated and discovered that the correct data was storing this in my ferret index: "1999-10-18 00:00:00" and the incorrect data was storing this: "Mon Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 1999" (oops...) So I of course had to fix the

Is it possible to query the index for a TermEnum for all fields in the index instead of just ? Thanks, John

We all know that using ferret/aaf without the drb server is not thread-safe-- but why not? Would it be so hard to sacrifice performance by using a simple locking system? Very often I run into a situation where I want to quickly stage a project, and I want to use a few mongrels but don''t want to configure every last piece of the system, including the drb server. It would be nice

I get this error when stopping the DRb server via capistrano. "no such file to load -- ferret_extensions" i see that lib/ferret_extensions is a newly required file in 0.4.1... any reason ferret can''t see it? The Rails app server starts fine. thanks j

Under what circumstances does the DRb server need to be restarted? When new models are being indexed? When a model changes? Thanks, John

We would like to show a list of "most recently added terms", meaning, the results of this query: Resource.aaf_index.ferret_index.reader.terms(:summary) BUT, only returning terms from a certain set of documents (in our case, we are going to filter by creation data). Is this possible? Thanks, John

I am experience situations where accessing the index results in a complete re-indexing of the model. I have not been able to detect a pattern. Under what circumstances does Ferret (or AAF) decide that it needs to rebuild the index? I''ll be happy to look at the code relevant to this if someone could direct me to it. Thanks, John

How are ruby nil values represented in the index? Thanks, John

Does anyone have an experience with mocking/stubbing ferret, in order to increase speed? I''ve taken a look at what it might entail and from what I''ve seen it would have to be a pretty elaborate system. But I am not very experienced with mocking/stubbing. Any tips much appreciated. John

With AAF I am seeing a strange situation, where a result set has 1 element, but the element is nil, or perhaps sometimes an empty array. I realize this isn''t much to go by, but the rest of my system, and seemingly parallel queries, are working fine. Any suggestions are much appreciated. John

The documentation states: "single_index: set this to true to let this class use a Ferret index that is shared by all classes having :single_index set to true. :store_class_name is set to true implicitly, as well as index_dir, so don?t bother setting these when using this option. the shared index will be located in index/<RAILS_ENV>/shared ." [1] If I''m reading

My project is currently using AAF 0.4.3. Trunk has some compelling features, but my project is going live on Monday and I am apprehensive about switching. Is anyone using trunk in a relatively high-volume context? (A low and vague standard for evaluating production suitability, I know, but better than nothing). Thanks, John

Hello. I am new to Ferret. I am using it through Acts as Ferret. Let''s say I have such a table, and all columns are indexed using the default behavior provided by acts_as_ferret: ARTICLES -id -year -body [1] A typical request will be "select id from articles where KEYWORDS % body". Will id be indexed for fulltext searching? clearly the fulltext index on id will never be

I jut noticed this example in the lucene documentation*: title:(+return +"pink panther") I have been using this syntax: +title:(return AND "pink panther") Seemingly with success. Are both acceptable? I couldn''t find any documentation on "the plus sign" itself. Thanks for any pointers. John

Hi folks. If I am indexing ModelA and ModelB and I want to search both of them, I usually just pick one arbitrarily and use it for #multi_search. Is there a slicker pattern, regarding from which model to invoke #multi_search? Can it be invoked directly from the Ferret library? Has anyone put together some sort of "dummy" search class? Thanks for any ideas. John

After switching to the DRb server, I am experiencing strange behavior when sorting on score. My app was working as expected before the switch. Both before and after the switch, my app sorts properly on other fields, such as date. For sorting on score, I am using the following option find_by_contents option: :sort => Ferret::Search::SortField::SCORE Before switching to DRb, this worked

Is there any somewhat standard way to remove or otherwise handle special or syntax characters from a user''s search, such as a colon? I was thinking maybe there was something akin to Ferret::Analysis::FULL_ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS, like Ferret::Analysis::FERRET_SYNTAX_CHARS, but no such luck. How are other folks dealing with filtering user input? John

I am using AAF trunk, and I want a way to rebuild an index on a production site with little or no interruption to service. The Drb Server documentation* states that when an index is rebuilt, it is done in a separate location and then swapped into place when finished, and so to do a complete rebuild on a live site, one must take into consideration objects which have been created or