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Hi, I am having a problem where ferret.so is crashing which highlighting search results. The query string is "25,42,53,80,88,119,135,139,389,445,464,563,593,636,1441,1442,1444,1515, 1519,1527,1537,1546,3389". In the debugger I can see that the crash happens in search.c on line 907. The reason is that the excerpt->end field is -1. I think the reason is because in this code from

Hi, There is a problem with the way that acts_as_ferret verifies the index is valid. In ensure_index_exists it looks for a file named ''segments''. With the 0.11.0 release of ferret there is no file with this name. On my dummy application I have a ''segments.gen'' and ''segments_2y''. Changing the test to segments.gen fixes the problem that the

Hi, In ferret, and especially when using acts_as_ferret, it is easy to specify many fields. What is the cost of using a lot of fields from a performance perspective? Is each field searched separately, or are they combined together in the inverted index. As an extreme example, if I made every word in my documents a separate field (so the first word in each document was field 1 and the

Hi, Does anyone know why the indexes created by Ferret can''t be opened by Luke (http://www.getopt.org/luke/)? When I do development with Clucene I use Luke all the time to understand what is going on in the index. It is especially useful when trying to diagnose analyzer issues. When I try to open a Ferret index with Luke I get the message "Invalid or corrupted index". I