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Hi, I am experiencing very poor performance when updating my index. For example, to update the index for 10 documents, it is taking 3 to 4 seconds. My index is currently very small... with probably less than 100 docs in it. I have created my index as follows: GIFT_INDEX = Index::Index.new(:path => "#{index_dir}/gift", :key => ''id'', :auto_flush => true)

Hi all, I''m trying to figure out how to add a filter into a search. I''ve created the filter, basically copying the location filter from http://blog.tourb.us/archives/ferret-and-location-based-searches. But when I try to call Index.search and pass the filter in a hash with the key :filter, I get back that it is expecting type Data, and so I''m at a loss to figure out

Over the weekend we launched http://tourb.us, a social search site for live music that makes heavy use of ferret. We''re using version 0.3.2 and have had very few problems so far. You can read about some of our ferret usage here: http://blog.tourb.us/archives/ferret-and-location-based-searches I''d be very interested in hearing from other people who have ferret running on a