similar to: Balancing relevancy and recentness

One other mod to Ferret I''ve found useful is to add the following line at the top of the each_hit() block in Search::IndexSearcher.search: score = yield( doc, score ) if block_given? This allows a block attached to a search call to adjust document scores before documents are sorted, based on some (possibly dynamic) numerical factors associated with the document, e.g. the number

Hey .. I''m using ferret to index various objects and i''m create a Ferret::Document for each of these objects. Indexing and searching is working fine. Each of these Ferret::Documents has a ''relevance'' field, storing an integer, how relevant this object is for the search. The ''relevance'' is in the range of 1..10 Now i would like to

Sorry if this is a repost- I wasn''t sure if the www.ruby-forum.com list works for postings. I''ve been having trouble with indexing a large amount of documents(2.4M). Essentially, I have one process that is following the tutorial dumping documents to an index stored on the file system. If I open the index with another process, and run the size() method it is stuck at a number

Hi! First, thanks a LOT for ferret. The API and documentation is great. I''m trying to integrate ferret into a RoR app (DamageControl) and have run into a problem with locks. DamageControl consists of two processes that start up and run in parallel. The first one is the webapp (which is just a plain RoR app). The second is a daemon process that runs in the background. The daemon process

I was looking in using an xml_builder template to do something like: blee.xerb xml.blees do <% for blee in @blees %> xml.blee = blee.name <% end %> end It looks like the xml_builder template can''t expand the erb tag. It this not the correct way to expand and xml template ? Thanks ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hey.. i am just browsing through the lucene features and i''m wondering if this feature is available in ferret as well .. # multiple-index searching with merged results this would be nice, as i''m thinking about several indexes, as i am using a lot of wildcard queries for livesearches like google suggest. i think the performance would increase, if i split my rather big index in

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

I am using aaf and things are working fine. I''m just curious to find out if the results are returned in the order of relevancy of the search term. I am thinking of getting the ids and further processing those ids and returning the result in a different order. Then it struck me what if the results are in the order of relevancy. Based on the answer to the question I''ll

I''m running from the trunk, and hitting road blocks no matter which way I attempt to search across multiple indexes. I tried a MultiSearcher, but I can''t pass a string for the search query ms.search "iraq" TypeError: wrong argument type String (expected Data) So I tried creating a QueryParser to pass, but I can''t get the fields from the reader

I am wondering whether one could boost certain fields (e.g., title and keywords) to make them ''weigh'' more against searches across all fields. I know that Document::Field has a boost attribute and that it accepts a boost argument in the constructor (although I''ve had not much luck with it, I am just getting back exceptions upon init w/ boost), but I was wondering

Hi, just saw the announcement of yet another ajax library on theserverside.com. The server seems to be under heavy load already but if you can cope with longer load times http://rialto.application-servers.com/demoRialto.jsp shows some neat stuff. regards Jan

For those haven''t seen it yet, Patrick Peak has an interesting article at the Server Side (www.theserverside.com) discussing the differences between the Hibernate (www.hibernate.org) peristence framework and ActiveRecord.  The article can be found here: http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=RailsHibernate .  Patrick Peak is the author of _Hibernate Quickly_ (Manning), which

Is it safe to open the index to do searches on while another process is writing to the index? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey folks, Some good news. I''ve finished cFerret and it''s ruby bindings to the point where I can run all of the unit tests. I still have to work out how I''m going to package and release it but it shouldn''t be long now. If you can''t wait you might like to try it from the subversion repository. It''ll probably only work on linux at the moment and

All, I am getting an undefined method exception while trying to use a helper method in a xerb file. I am running version 0.0.8 module Merb module FredHelper def blee( args ) .... end end end In the xerb template I have xml.bobo blee( args ) At runtime I am getting undefined method ''blee'' I tryied

Hi, I was wondering if any of you Rails/SQL ninjas knew of an elegant way to grab from activerecord all the rows that are within an interval of the current time (say in the last week). For instance, if there''s the created_on datetime column, is there a zippy way to use find() without SQL? It seems like the Ruby DateTime object doesn''t really do intervals for numerous

Hello guys, I have an weight value which is calculated by some factor and i need to add the weight with the relevancy value of a result and sort it with that value is that possible in xapian. Thanks, VishnuKumar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/attachments/20130302/9831e287/attachment-0001.html>

Hi, I have this maddening strange bug using acts_as_ferret. If I search for a given phrase (let''s say "xyz") I get one set of results (lets call them set A). I search for xyz again and I get set A again. I search for xyz a third time and I get a different set (set B). I can keep executing the search query and my result sets continue to cycle a-a-b-a-a-b-a-a-b. It''s

All, I see this item on the merb-0.0.8 release notes Added rails session parasite mode. I am assuming merbs can piggy back off the rails current session. How does one achieve that ? Thanks Fernand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/merb-devel/attachments/20070112/0803f46e/attachment.html

Hi guys (and gals?), We're using Xapian/Omega for indexing and searching forums. As forums are, the content that is relevant to a search is not just determined by the frequency or location of the terms; the date the topic has been last modified is important as well. Another issue we find is that the amount of results is so overwhelming, the user is unable to find the correct topic for his