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Sorry if this is a repost- I wasn''t sure if the www.ruby-forum.com list works for postings. I''ve been having trouble with indexing a large amount of documents(2.4M). Essentially, I have one process that is following the tutorial dumping documents to an index stored on the file system. If I open the index with another process, and run the size() method it is stuck at a number

I''m currently trying to install the latest version of Ferret (0.10.9) on my Ubuntu Dapper (6.06) system. I have tried the gem, but it does not generate the ferret_ext.so file. Ideally I would prefer to install from the gem, but if source works, I''m fine with that too. I am now trying an install from source, but when I run the command ''$ rake ext'' I get the

I was wondering about the potential impact of setting the boost field for an index after the index has been created and optimized. I know that some field_info settings can''t really be modified, such as :store or :tokenize, as they really apply when you are indexing, but is boost? If boost is only used for searching, can it be modified dynamically when searching? Thanks for any