similar to: Benchmark - Thanks Dave for making this gnawer this FAST!!

Hi there, What''s the current status of the Windows port? I may be in a position to lend a hand over the next couple of weeks - where should I start looking? And what''s the best way to get SVN HEAD? This happens: $ svn checkout svn://www.davebalmain.com/ferret/trunk ferret svn: Can''t connect to host ''www.davebalmain.com'': Connection refused --

Hi all, Having problems trying to get Ferret to read an index generated by Lucene. Am I right in thinking Ferret should be able to read a Lucene generated index no problem? Using the code snippets detailed in http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/64099#new Any advice gratefully received. Many Thanks, Steven -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, >From looking at Ruby sources it seems that every update method deletes and reinserts documents. It makes sense if indexed fields are changed but what if it is not the case? It would speed up update a lot indexes did not have to be updated twice for nothing. Any quick way to do it? -- Sergei Serdyuk Red Leaf Software LLC web: http://redleafsoft.com -- Posted via

Hey guys, Now that the Lucy[1] project has Apache approval and is about to begin, the onus is no longer on Ferret to strive for Lucene compatability. (We''ll be doing that in Lucy). So I''m starting to think about ways to improve Ferret''s API. The first part that needs to be improved is the Document API. It''s annoying having to type all the attributes to

Hi, I''m currently trying to set up a solution involving multiple servers using the same index over nfs. The problem is that from what I have seen, ferret doesn''t support multiple processes writing to the same index. Using a DRb service is not an option since this would create a single point of failure. I tried using Ferret::Store::FSDirectory to create a write lock on the the

Hey, Luke doesn''t seem to be able to open a Ferret index I''ve created. Is this expected? If yes, can someone recommend another index inspection tool? Thanks, John

I''m getting some results that I don''t understand from a search. The code, based on the tutorial, and the results are below. Everything makes sense to me, except the results for the ''title:"Some"'' query. I would think that it should match the first two documents, but not the third. What am I missing here? Thanks for any help! --- code

Hello again everyone! I've got myself a problem trying to run a java application (with calls to Windows native libraries) on Wine 1.2. That aside, the problem is explained with this little example: Code: $ wine java -version java version "1.6.0_20" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode) $ wine java -xmx1024

Does anyone have experience with linux tools to parse the text from common non-text file formats for searching? I'm trying to use the kinosearch add-on for twiki which is fine as far as the search goes, but it takes forever to generate the index. It uses xpdf to extract strings from pdf's, antiword for .doc, and since it is perl, the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module for .xls. Some

Hi All, Hope all is going well. Was just wondering if anyone has implemented a grep style output page of hits using Ferret as the index/query engine? Any thoughts about how best to implement it? The previous thread discussess highlighting - would that be the best approach to follow or is there a better way? Cheers, Marcus -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m getting a locale not set error. Does anyone know how I should set my locale in my rails environment so that ferret knows what to do? Why isn''t this a problem in the ruby version of ferret? Thanks, Carl

Hi, We''re using Ferret 0.9.4 and we''ve observed the following behavior. Searching for ''fieldname: foo and bar'' works fine while ''fieldname: "foo and bar"'' doesn''t return any results. Is there a way to make ferret recognize the ''and'' inside the query as a search term and not an operator? (I hope I got the

Hi Everyone, I''m using Ferret 0.10.11 with acts_as_ferret from SVN (same results with 0.10.10 and 0.10.9 though). I''m running into an odd problem where the scores of my top-ranking search results are ridiculously small - even when the query is one that should match at least one document with a decent score. To give an example, I have just the names of 5 businesses indexed

Recently I''ve been revisiting some of my search code. With a greater understanding of how Java Lucene implements its search methods, I realized that one level of abstraction is not present in the Ferret classes/methods. Here are the relevant method signatures: Ferret''s search methods: in Ferret::Index::Index: search(query, options = {}) -> returns a TopDocs

since i cant manage to get the accelerated ferret going (amd64 incompatible C code) and hyperestraier returns 0 results for everything after a reboot (despite claiming its index is every bit as big as before) i made a simple rails inverted index that essentially just does a find_or_create_by_word for each word, and then adds its id to a join table linking words and documents.. the only

Guess Dave wasn''t going to blow his own trumpet so someone else has to do it for him. An interesting interview with Dave that filled in the gaps on the About Me page I had asked about... http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/10/ruby-hacker-interview-dave-balmain.html -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi All I have just upgraded from to Samba 2.0.0 from 1.9.18p8. Everything seems cool except my macintosh clients (running Dave v2.0 and v2.1) are not now able to access anything from the samba shares. The samba server still appears in chooser and you can select any share and mount it, but there appears to be nothing in it and you cannot copy anything to it. My other netbios machines on the

Hi Again... Still having Problems... System is Mint 9, Gnome standard 32 bit. I have an extract from the terminal window... from when i run the command: LANG=C wine Setup.exe This is after i have a clean install of wine 1.1.17.. with the winetricks installed as per the instructions @ wine-HQ The PhotoShop cs4 Extended installer starts, afetr a bit it wants Gecko, even though i have installed it

Hi, Plenty to talk about today. Dave Nelsen, a founder of Talkshoe, has a lot of experience in the telecommunications space and he joins us today to chat about its current state, conferencing and whatever else comes to mind. So we have a meta conference aout conferencing, it won't be the first time :) You probably saw John Todd's message on one of the lists: Skype for Asterisk is in open

Hi, Plenty to talk about today. Dave Nelsen, a founder of Talkshoe, has a lot of experience in the telecommunications space and he joins us today to chat about its current state, conferencing and whatever else comes to mind. So we have a meta conference aout conferencing, it won't be the first time :) You probably saw John Todd's message on one of the lists: Skype for Asterisk is in open