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...ate and search the index, in case that''s useful: I have created an index that is stored on disk. I''d like to read it back into memory and use a RAMDirectory to see what speed improvements I can get by using that. Here''s what I''m doing to create the index: ram_dir = Ferret::Store::RAMDirectory.new in_mem_index = Ferret::Index::IndexWriter.new(ram_dir, :create => true) # ... add stuff to the index in_mem_index.optimize in_mem_index.close index = Ferret::Index::Index.new(:dir => ram_dir) index.persist(''path/to/index'', tr...

Hi All, Hope all is going well. I''m having trouble with the following code creating an in memory index reader - it seems to be attempting to read from a file regardless. Here''s the simple code: require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' a = Ferret::Index::Index.new r = Ferret::Index::IndexReader.new(nil) Running the code on my OS X machine