similar to: Bug in fuzzy search

Hi, everyone, Just wondering if someone had come up with a good way to do fuzzy searches if you use MySQL as your database (we tried switching to PostgreSQL, but that ended up adding even more problems). Ferret sounds great, but reading through the discussion it looks like we need to solve the problem of write conflicts. I just wrote a post in ruby-talk about using KirbyBase maybe to solve

I''m trying to use Ferret to do fuzzy searches. If I use fuzzy search for just one word, it works fine: index.search(''name:gogle~0.4'') However, if I try to use a phrase, it doesn''t work: index.search(''name:"gogle search engine"~0.4'') On the other hand, I could do: index.search(''name:gogle~0.4 AND

Hi, David and everyone, I''ve had Ferret running fine in a production Rails application for a while now. I haven''t updated Ferret or really looked at the Ferret-related code since probably January, but I recently started thinking about trying out the latest version (we were using 0.3.2, I think). I got the latest (0.9.4) and have noticed things break. In particular, I used to

Hey folks, ** Description ** Firstly for those who don''t know, Ferret is a full-text search library which makes adding search to your application a breeze. It''s much faster than MySQL full-text search as well most other search libraries out there. It allows you to do Boolean (+ruby + rails -jewelry) and phrase queries ("the quick brown fox") as well as some more

I may have run across a bug in Ferret: if throws a segmentation fault when I try to create a Sort object using the default fields (SCORE and DOC_ID), but setting reverse to true. Here''s the minimal example: #!/usr/bin/env ruby require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' Ferret::Search::Sort.new Ferret::Search::Sort.new( [

Hello, My Ferret integration has gone quite well. I''m now returning all the results I need from two models using "id_multi_search" and combining the results in the view using a couple of partials. Is there any way that I can turn on fuzzy searching? Would fuzzy searching pick up basic spelling mistakes such as "Bnadit" instead of "Bandit" my experience

This may be offtopic to Rails, but what are people doing to find records based on fuzzy string matches? For example, if you wanted to find a Person with name "David Heinemeier Hansson" but searched using the string "Dave Hansson". Currently I am find_by_sql that calls the PostgreSQL function "levenshtein(string1, string2)" which returns results with a score

Hi ferreteers, I came across a segfault in the query parser. It had already been reported[1] and fixed[2], but it can lead to a denial of service. If you use Ferret anywhere that you allow users to execute queries, those users can crash your Ruby process with a specially crafted query. I''m sure you''re all using Monit or something for your Rails or drb processes, so

Hi, I just checked out ferret 0.10.14 from subversion and am getting intermittent failures from the thread_safety_index_test.rb script. Sometimes it runs through to the end with no errors, but other times I get errors, including segfaults. I reported the bug here: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/153 Can anyone else reproduce this? svn co

Remember folks, we can support the Ferret project by donating warm soft electronic cash to the author, Dave Balmain, using the paypal buttons on the website: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/DonationsFAQ We can also buy the Ferret Shortcut pdf/book from O''Reilly, also written by Dave Balmain. It''s awesome good:

Hey all, I''m back. Some of you are probably thinking that is the longest weeks vacation on record. Well, I''d like to take this opportunity to apologise for my absence and offer a brief explanation. When I got back to Australia I naturally went home to visit my parents, only to find that they have been hit really hard by the drought. They didn''t really tell me just how

Hello all, I recently upgraded from the Ferret gem 0.11.4 to the Subversion trunk, changeset #770. I did this because I needed the large file patch from http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/215 When adding documents to the index, I get the following message printed to STDERR many times: Warning encoding error. Please check that you are using the correct locale for your input

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone had experience of extending AAF plugin for Rails to implement a broader query ? The documentation and the demo provided on the http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/ wiki seems to only match full text queries, or partial when using a * wildcard. Ideally, I am trying to acheive something similar to the following (pseudo code): def search @query

How can I index and search RoR model objects in a case insensitive manner? In Ferret there is the LowerCaseFilter (http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Analysis/LowerCaseFilter.html). How can I utilize it and other filters with acts_as_ferret? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello. Forgive my ignorance if this has been covered. I searched through the archives and didn''t find anything. All the blogs, tutorials, documentation I''m reading on acts_as_ferret say that to use fuzzy searching, I simply append a ~ to my query. I''m using Ferret 0.11.3 and the newest (should be) acts_as_ferret plugin. I can only get perfect matches to show up

Hi Folks, I''ve just released version 0.9.0. This latest version of Ferret is an alpha release. I have removed the old c extension and Ferret is now running on a fully ported C library. This has allowed some huge performance improvements both with regard to memory and CPU usage. There will probably be a few portability issues to start with. It has been developed on Linux so it should

There are certain queries that I can execute that will cause a completely repeatable segmentation fault at the point where the search or search_each leaves my control and goes into the ferret libraries. I tried deleting my indexes and recreating them, and even so the exact same queries seg fault repeatedly after. Usually a one character change will make them succeed. Changing away from a

Ferret throws a bus error in the unit tests under Solaris, sun4u architecture. http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/272 Bug reporter appears to be on Solaris 8 with Ruby 1.8.4. I''ve tried on Solaris 10 (first release and 10/06, first without and then with the most recent patch set), both with Ruby 1.8.6, and get exactly the same error in the same spot. Tried with 0.11.4 and also

Hey guys, It has occurred to me that a lot of people need some of the fixes I make to Ferret ASAP and don''t like having to wait to long for the gem. On the other hand, it is a bit of a pain to download and install from subversion because then you need to uninstall when the next gem comes out. So I thought I may as well put some instructions out as to how you can build your own Ferret gem

Hey .. i''m not sure if the trac is currently maintained, so i''ll post this here as well, just to make sure :) http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/94 i get a segfault on certain queries.. i guess thats a problem with the query parser.. >> Indexer.index.search( "american~0.6 AND NOT type:Language" ) *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption