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According to the following link: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/QueryParser.html :handle_parser_errors => true is enabled by default and seems to be in acts_as_ferret in class_methods.rb of the plugin. However, when I pass a special character as a query (e.g., !, -, <, >, etc) it throws an error and pukes. -- snip -- Error occured in src/q_parser.y:279 - yyerror

...../index/development/article", :create_if_missing=>true, :default_field=>["title"], :analyzer=>#<Ferret::Analysis::StandardAnalyzer:0x2b686dc75f78>, :auto_flush=>true, :or_default=>false, :dir=>#<Ferret::Store::FSDirectory:0x2b686dc76748>, :key=>:id, :handle_parse_errors=>true}, @mon_waiting_queue=[]> (it''s ok, seems to run ok! :) >> query = "ruby" => "ruby" >> options ="" (mmmh, just enough! Now.... ) >> index.search_each(query, options) do |doc, score| ?> puts index[doc][:title] >> end...

I''m getting some results that I don''t understand from a search. The code, based on the tutorial, and the results are below. Everything makes sense to me, except the results for the ''title:"Some"'' query. I would think that it should match the first two documents, but not the third. What am I missing here? Thanks for any help! --- code

During our last week of Ferret / aaf usage (also our first week of Ferret / aaf usage), I have received 8 messages stating that our app encountered a Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException. For instance: A Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException occurred in foo#search: Error occurred in src/q_parser.y:279 - yyerror couldn''t parse query "com -- 404". Error message

Hi all, I cannot make aaf (rev. 220) use my custom analyzer, despite following the indications @ http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/wiki/AdvancedUsage To pinpoint the problem, I created a model + a simple analyzer with 2 stop words : "fax" and "gsm". test 1 : model.rebuild_index + model.find_by_contents("fax") # fax is a stop word. => I get a