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Hello, I''ve installed the Ferret gem and also got the act_as_ferret code from the wiki. I''ve set up my model "Branch" to act as ferret using the code below. acts_as_ferret :options => {:fields => [''name'', ''body_text'', ''address'']} I''ve also set up a ferret_controller with the code below def find

Hi all, Im a newbie to ferret.I have installed the act_as_ferret gem and i actually want to search for some content in the model,but per user. My model has data,user_id.So within the data column i have to serach for a word if it exists for a given user. So can i achieve that ? presently i know that it just searches the "data" column irrespective of the user given. Can someone help me

hi, i''m trying ferret and acts_as_ferret, it''s good, but i''ve a little problem. i''ve a model book which has a title and a quantity, how can i search using act_as_ferret all books which quantity is > 0 ? and howand with a search like "book", how can i found also title like "books" ? and the last, if i search "bok", is it possible

Hi Everyone, I''ve a RoR application. I am trying to build full text search capability into it. I installed Ferret. After that I installed the act_as_ferret plugin. I''ve also put the acts_as_ferret inside the <model>.rb file . I''m using the find_by_contents to get the search results. I''m getting the following error. I''ve no clue and I

I have installet the Ferret gem v. 0.11.6 and the latest acts_as_ferret plugin from svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret I''ve followed the instructions here http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/wiki/DrbServer to set up the server, and put acts_as_ferret :remote => true on one of my models (Ad) I can also start the ferret_server, but when

Dear, I have download the demo of ferret from the following svn svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/trunk/demo and then i run the demo http://localhost:3005/content but i got such exception: undefined method `acts_as_ferret'' for ContentBase:Class RAILS_ROOT: ./script/../config/.. Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace

Hello, does anybody know how to implement a "Did you mean ...?" like Google with act_as_ferret? I think this is a possible way: 1. Generate a keyword-list (this is my difficulty. I don''t know how to build such a list from the index) with no stop-words from the first index. e. g. (car, ship, plant, house) 2. Build a second index from this word-list where we store the word in

Has anyone deployed ferret & act_as_ferret to a load balanced multiple server environment? If so, did you simply use a shared network index? I have a couple of ideas on how to deploy - but each have shortcomings and I''m hoping to find out if anyone else has deployed ferret in this manner. The application is simply load balanced between multiple servers running the same app for

I am trying to use SVN HEAD of Acts_as_ferret, and I have ferret 0.10.4installed from the windows Gem. Unfortuanantly, whenever I i let act_as_ferrets init.rb file require ferret, my app blows up, with weird "Invalid char" errors. I have pasted the page below. If I comment out the require ferret, the page loads. Of course, act_as_ferret does blow up. My unit tests do work fine

Hello everybody! I try to install ferret gem in my local machine . It goes like this : [root at dhcppc2 ~]# gem install ferret Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org . complete Select which gem to install for your platform (i686-linux) 1. ferret 0.11.3 (ruby) 2. ferret 0.11.2 (ruby) 3. ferret 0.11.1 (ruby) >>1 Building native extensions. This could take a while...

Hi, I have installed the ferret gem (on WIN XP). My search and result view is working, but it comes back with empty results all the time. It seems like ferret is building the index (there is 3 binary files in the index directory). If I add the line: acts_as_ferret :fields => [''title'',''description'',''price'',''website_url'']

Hello, I am not able to run this command given in the tutorial http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/ *Inside your Rails project* Please use script/plugin install svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret gem is installed. i have added the desired line in environment.rb as well but while running this particular command of svn://.. nothing actually

Hi all, the current acts_as_ferret trunk is now ported to Ferret 0.10. Get it while it''s hot at svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/trunk/plugin Nearly everything works, besides this: - all queries are ORed (no way to tell the QueryParser to build AND queries by default) - more_like_this is broken I''m working with Dave to fix these things soon. The last Ferret 0.9.x

Hi, I have a model that I''ve been indexing and searching with ferret some problem. We get the following error when accessing the model File Not Found Error occured at <except.c>:117 in xpop_context Error occured in fs_store.c:329 - fs_open_input tried to open "/var/www/html/cuproject/index/development/album/_b.cfs" but it doesn''t exist: <No such file or

Does ferret only index, when you create, or udpate a record? Is there a way to make it index prexisting records? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I''m having an error that occurs in production (on Dreamhost) but does not occur in development on my local machine. The situation is that there is a model (Article), and it uses act_as_ferret for search. The error is as follows (where I say {full server path}, that''s not what the error says, just my note): LoadError (Expected {full server path}/article.rb to define

Hi, I was wondering if the latest version of acts_as_ferret (0.2.2) that is listed on http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/ is compatible with the latest version of Ferret 0.9.5. I noticed that the website above stated that it was supposed to work with 0.9.4, but I didn''t see anything about 0.9.5. Thanks, Aaron -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Ok, first up, I''m a Rails newbie. My site is hosted on godaddy.com Godaddy has the Ferret GEM installed by default. They do not have acts_as_ferret installed so I can''t use that. I''m trying to follow the tutorial on the Ferret wiki http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki It includes all of the code I need, but it doesn''t tell

Hello list, I wonder if someone has some tips on joining a ferret search with a database. I have a rails project using a postgresql backend and I would like to utilize the superb performance of ferret for fulltext searching. The problem is that I have to joined the result with the database as I have some user access rights to different documents to take into account. Does anyone have

I have ferret setup in my model with multiple fields, but when I do a search on the value that might be stored in two fields, I get no results. Here''s an example: "Jim 12333" Where Jim is a name field, and 12333 is a zip code. I have this in my model: acts_as_ferret :fields => [ ''name'', ''zip'' ] I''m not sure