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is it possible to write a custom sort routine for ferret? I use ferret right now to index all my products. One of the variables in these product documents is the product popularity, where 1 = best selling production, 2 = 2nd best, etc.. Right now, I''m just sorting by the popularity column in my search results, although this doesn''t always provide "good" results,

I''m making a simple business directory search and I want to boost the relevance of the ''name'' field over the ''address'' field - both stored in the same document in the same index. Here is some console code to demonstrate what I am actually doing >> include Ferret::Document => Object >> doc = Document.new => Document { } >> doc

Jesse Grosjean wrote: > I''m trying to write a solaris SMF file to launch the ferret drb server. Hmm, I think I''ve hit a similar problem. I''ve just upgraded to the latest ferret trunk from an old aaf stable where the script/ferret_start and script/ferret_stop scripts were still in use. now if I call the old script... RAILS_ENV=production script/ferret_start

I cooked up a little script to show what I mean. This doesn''t look right to me, but maybe I just completely misunderstand QueryParser. Same output on mswin32, unix, ferret 0.9 and 0.10 Cheers, Sam require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' p Ferret::VERSION # 0.10.6 index = Ferret::Index::Index.new() index << {:title => "Programming

Hello everyone, We need to create backups of our index, but there are a few constraints: - our application shouldn''t go offline for that - it has to be done quickly Ferret doesn''t seem to have this kind of functionnality (though I''m very new to Ferret, I may be wrong), and I figured that I couldn''t do it using plain Ruby (it''s way too slow, try with

Is anyone using ferret with Mongrel/Mongrel-cluster? The first one or two times I access the ferret index it works fine, but then it throws a write lock error StandardError (: Error occured at <index_rw.c>:703 Error: exception 6 not handled: Could not obtain write lock when trying to write index ): I need to do more testing on this to narrow down the problem/solution but just wanted to

Just a quick note for future reference - at least for me, ferret won''t work on Ruby 1.8.4. gem install ferret Successfully installed ferret-0.11.4-mswin32 ruby -v ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32] irb irb(main):001:0> require ''ferret'' A windows error message box appears - ruby.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point rb_w32_write could not be

Hi i''m using ferret to enable geographical postcode. I take a postcode and distance in miles from the user, strip off the outcode and then retrieve the associated x y coordinates in metres from the db. Then i get two temp x''s and y''s and search for all results that are within the box, see code below. Problems start to occur when i search on big distances so for

hi, i''m trying ferret, i''ve a model which has some records and two of them have a title with the word ''again'' (one or more time), so i''ve tried to do a search for ''again'', but i didn''t found anything...i''ve edited the title with ''test again'', searched for ''test'', and i''ve

I have the following models: class Book < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_ferret belongs_to :author end class Author < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :books end and in the controller: def search if params[:query] @query = params[:query] @total, @books = Book.full_text_search(@query, :page => (params[:page]||1)) @pages =

This is important so please read this message very carefully. There is a DoS for Ruby''s cgi.rb that is easily exploitable. The attack involves sending a malformed multipart MIME body in an HTTP request. The full explanation of the attack as well as how to fix it RIGHT NOW is given below. Most of the work was done by Jeremy Kemper and Jamis Buck. They did all the work of building the

Hi One of the two mongrel processes has died in the middle of the night four times in the past 9 days, and I need help debugging this. Each time the symptoms are the same: * Each time I can restart the process via cap -a restart_app. * Before the restart, there is nothing unusual in production.log or mongrel.log. * During the restart, about 100 repetitions of an error message are generated in

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

This might just have affected my particular setup but thought it might be worth noting for others. >gem -v 0.9.2 >gem list --local cgi_multipart_eof_fix (1.0.0) Fix an exploitable bug in CGI multipart parsing which affects Ruby <= 1.8.5. mongrel (1.0.1, 1.0, 0.3.20, 0.3.18, 0.3.13.4) A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro and Iowa apps.

This error has been driving me nuts. It happens with no regularity or pattern and causes a 500 App error. Refreshing will always display as normal (http 200) The back trace always starts with TypeError (can''t convert Bignum into Hash): /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:342:in `update''

Hey Dave, I just contributed $100 to the ferret donation box. My project is earning no money yet (but hopefully will), for now I hope this helps you out and covers me for asking stupid questions ;). To get a distance sorted output, I am passing an array of the id field from a ferret search through to mysql in a custom select statement. SELECT ... id IN (#{ids.join(",")}) This has