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I have a rails app that is going to be deployed across several servers. In my understanding of acts_as_ferret, the index files are kept in the index folder in the root of the rails app. This won''t work for multiple servers, of course, since all the servers will have their own directory tree. How are people using ferret for apps deployed on multiple servers? Could I run the index files

I have a rails app model that I''m getting a strange error that is just baffling me. I''ve stripped everything out of my model down to the basics and still get the error. So, here is the current model: class Metric < ActiveRecord::Base end When I go into the console, and issue a simple "Metric.create" command I get the following error: >> Metric.create

I have a MySQL table with over 18 million records in it. We are indexing about 10 fields in this table with ferret. I am having problems with the initial building of the index. I created a rake task to run the "Model.rebuild_index" command in the background. That process ran fine for about 2.5 days before it just suddenly stopped. The log/ferret_index.log file says it got to about

Ok, So I''m running mongrel_cluster behind a hardware load balancer. I don''t have apache running at all, just mongrel_cluster. Does anyone know how I can get cap disable_web/enable_web to work without Apache. With no apache I can''t just make an .htaccess file change like the docs state. has anyone rewritten disable_web/enable_web to work with just mongrel_cluster and

I''m trying to run an external Ruby script from my Rails app. To do this i''m using this function def fork_with_new_connection(config, my_class = ActiveRecord::Base) pid = fork do begin my_class.establish_connection(config) yield ensure my_class.remove_connection end end Process.detach(pid) end Then, within my controller I do this: