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I have a model class in rails that has a class variable that is a ferret index. For some reason, the methods in my class that refer to the class variable are getting lock conflicts. Can anybody see any obvious reason why? I notice that it keeps leaving a lock file in the index directory. I thought auto_flush was supposed to remove the lock automatically after every operation. Is there

I''m trying to generate a rails pagination helper for some ferret search results, and I need to know how many total matches there are to my search query. I don''t see an obvious way of finding this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Carl Youngblood

I seem to be getting the same document multiple times in my search results. I''m wondering if this is because by default a document is placed in the search results every time the word you''re looking for shows up. Is that the way it works? Thanks, Carl

I''m noticing that ferret-write.lck sometimes stays in my index directory and throws exceptions whenever someone tries to do a search. Apparently there are some cases where ferret doesn''t realize that the file is old and can be deleted. I''m wondering what the best way to recover from this error is. Am I safe just writing a cron job that deletes this file if it is over

Hi folks, I''ve working and playing with acts_as_ferret and follow this fantastic tutorial: http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial When I try to implement the field storage tip, it crash. So, I try to make it via script/console: 1. I have a simple model called Articles: class Article < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_ferret :fields =>

Hi Dave, I''ve been reading this post below back in December 2005. Is it possible to set :key to :id in cFerret like suggested below? Thanks, Mac On 12/3/05, Carl Youngblood <carl at youngbloods.org <http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk>> wrote: >* I seem to be getting the same document multiple times in my search *>* results. I''m wondering if

FYI, I tried installing ferret on my freebsd virtual server and got this: retango# gem install ferret --include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ''ferret'' Local gem file not found: ferret*.gem Attempting remote installation of ''ferret'' Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Building native extensions. This could take a while...

Along with the contents of the documents in my index, I have stored the date they were added. I want to search for keywords in the index but have the results be sorted by their date rather than their relevance to the keywords. How would I do this in ferret? Thanks, Carl

I have an index in which I want different records to be accessible to different users. I think I can do this by adding a "users" field to each record in the index and narrow down my queries to only those records matching the current user''s userid. I have the userids separated by commas. What would be the right way to query for a certain user? I have to make sure that I

I''m wondering if ferret has any built-in search/replace mechanism that I might be able to use to highlight the query data in each search result. The reason I think this would be a good idea is that I could end up having to practically duplicate the ferret query parser just to interpret the query so that I can figure out how to highlight the keywords in the search results. Just in case

Hey Dave, I understand you''ve been very busy lately, but I was really excited when you said before Christmas sometime that you were soon to release a fast C version of ferret. Is that still in the works? Do you have even a rough ETA? I have a rails site that would greatly benefit from it. Thanks, Carl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I''m saving records to an index like so: index << {:id => id, :email => email, :contents => contents, :date => found_on} In debugging my code, it appears that whatever I set a record''s id to, when I find that record in a search, it returns the id minus 1, so if the first record I store in my database has an id of one and I store its counterpart in my index,

I''m noticing some long delays when optimizing my index. I know this is terribly inefficient, but in order to make sure that my ActiveRecord model is in sync with my index, I''m optimizing after every new record that I store, like so: class Resume < ActiveRecord::Base include Ferret has_and_belongs_to_many :users SEARCH_INDEX = File.dirname(__FILE__) +

Up to now in my ferret development I have been using simple single-word strings as my search queries. I just now am trying to increase the complexity of my queries. When I was passing a single word with no spaces in my index searches, like so: count = index.search_each(''testing'') do |d, s| ... end everything worked fine. But now when I do something like this: count =

I got some errors when running gem update to update my version of ferret on freebsd: Attempting remote upgrade of ferret Attempting remote installation of ''ferret'' Building native extensions. This could take a while... In file included from /usr/include/sys/time.h:40, from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-freebsd4.10/missing.h:16, from

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

I have gotten intercom working on my office phones (Linksys SPA-942s), but I have noticed that if someone is in a call, it places the call on hold and sends the intercom audio to the person holding the phone that is being paged. I'd like to add logic to my dialplan that doesn't send a page to a phone that is currently in a call. But to do this I need a function that will tell me if a

Hi folks, This latest release of Ferret has a lot of improvements. There have been substantial improvements to performance. Try it for yourself to see. I won''t be publishing any numbers just yet. I will say though that it''s still about 2-4 times slower than Lucene with the extension installed. There is also some performance improvements in the pure Ruby version if you

What data type is best for storing currency? I''m trying to come up with a reliable cross-database solution for rails that is not too complicated. Since I''m going to have currency fields all over the place, I''m not so sure that using two integer fields for each amount would qualify as uncomplicated. I''d like to be able to use database functions like SUM to

I am trying to modify a fairly complex digital receptionist dialplan that has a number of included contexts. Right now the system is not announcing the extension that the caller attempted to dial, so callers get confused when they think they dialed a valid extension but asterisk didn't pick everything up. I would like to have the system announce the entension that they attempted to dial in