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I have a column of words, for example "DOG" "DOOG" "GOD" "GOOD" "DOOR" ... and I am interested in creating a matrix that contains the string edit distances between each pair of words. I am this close -> ' ' <- to writing the algorithm myself (which will allow for different variations on...

Thanks Stuart. I thought I had read somewhere that rebuild_index built the index in a different location and then swapped it, but after looking at the code (in local_index.rb) this doesn''t appear to be the case. That might explain why the ferret server crashes sometimes when a search takes place during a reindex. I wouldn''t be doing exactly the same thing as this but