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I have spent a couple hours researching the FerretOnRails and acts_as_ferret plugin, and am very pleased with what I see so far. My question is how to have my application, with multiple models: Speakers Talks News etc.. With all varying :string and :text column types, to be able to use a single index by which I can produce a search on. I will go throu...

Hello, I tried using http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/FerretOnRails but Webrick won''t start after implementing the plugin? I tried both versions but to no avail? All I get is Booting up ... and then it dies? No info in log/development.log? Does anyone has a working copy of acts_as_ferret or has any ideas on what''s wrong? I am...

Suppose I have an existing database and would like to use ferret. What''s an easy way to ferretize the existing data in a table? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...mall pieces of software under a license. As the author of the first incarnation of acts_as_ferret I felt the need to put it under a licensing scheme. MIT was chosen, as suggested by DHH. It''s now included in the source listing on the ferret wiki. http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/FerretOnRails -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m saving records to an index like so: index << {:id => id, :email => email, :contents => contents, :date => found_on} In debugging my code, it appears that whatever I set a record''s id to, when I find that record in a search, it returns the id minus 1, so if the first record I store in my database has an id of one and I store its counterpart in my index,

I have multiple models all with: acts_as_ferret :fields => [...] (models = profiles, blogs, comments ) When I restart the server and perform any crud operation on one of the above models, the index is created/updated. If I then go and perform any crud operation on ANOTHER model, ...the index from that first model is being updated. Any ideas? Can acts_as_ferret handle this? Thanks

Hey guys, I know I can run search(q).total_hits, but if I try to put :limit=>0 it gives me an error. I don''t want it actually query any of the results, I just want it to tell me how many total_hits I would have if I wanted to search it. How can I do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all This week I have worked with Rails and Ferret to test Ferrets (and Lucenes) capabilities. I decided to make a mixin for ActiveRecord as it seemed the simplest possible solution and I ended up making this into a plugin. For more info on Ferret see: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ The plugin is functional but could easily be refined. Anyway I want to share it with you. Regard it as a

Hi all This week I have worked with Rails and Ferret to test Ferrets (and Lucenes) capabilities. I decided to make a mixin for ActiveRecord as it seemed the simplest possible solution and I ended up making this into a plugin. For more info on Ferret see: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ The plugin is functional but could easily be refined. Anyway I want to share it with you. Regard it as a