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I''m having a strange problem accessing a 1.7GB Ferret index from within Mongrel (1.0.1) on Linux. On OSX a Ferret search through Rails takes a fraction of a second. From the command line, bypassing Mongrel, the search takes about the same amount of time. On Fedora Core 4 a Ferret search from the command line takes a fraction of a second, but the same search through Mongrel never

This message reports a problem, and its solution. I found the solution while posting. Since others may have the same problem, I am continuing with the post. PROBLEM I am having a different problem than the one that others have reported (e.g. http://www.nabble.com/Problem-Installing-2.6.0-on-Mac-tf4778736.html#a13674247). Whether I try to install R as a whole, or individual packages, the

Hello, I''m using Ferret trunk (#770) with Kyle''s large file support patch: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/215 I''m having trouble with Ferret::Search::Searcher#highlight returning too much text around the query term. Regardless of what I set :excerpt_length to, highlight returns the entire contents of the field up to the first occurrence of the search

Hi, Just downloaded the new ferret 0.11. I''m on OSX btw. I get this error everytime I run my unit tests: Loaded suite ferret_updater_unit_test Started E/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/erb.rb:504: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.7.1] Abort trap When I revert back to 10.14 I dont get this error. When I comment out the line: Ferret::Index::Index.new({:path =>

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, I am trying to escape words for searching i.e., "hello". The key here is that the two L''s on "hello" are actually vertical bars. Is there a special function in Ferret or anywhere for that matter that will do the escaping of the Ferret special characters? Thanks in advance, Benjamin

I have 0.11.3 installed When I try 0.11.6 or 0.11.5 I get the following output Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. ruby extconf.rb install ferret creating Makefile make gcc -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.10.3

i'm building dovecot 1.1.beta9 on both osx 10.4.11 osx 10.5.1 using Using built-in specs. Target: powerpc-apple-darwin8 Configured with: /Builds/apple/gcc_42-5531/obj/src/configure --disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.0.0

I''m having a strange problem accessing a 1.7GB Ferret index from within Mongrel (1.0.1) on Linux. On OSX a Ferret search through Rails takes a fraction of a second. From the command line, bypassing Mongrel, the search takes about the same amount of time. On Fedora Core 4 a Ferret search from the command line takes a fraction of a second, but the same search through Mongrel never

Hi, I need to map words in a document back to there original word id''s in my database. For example, if I had the sentence "I eat food" and I was searching for "food" I would obviously get the document back as a result. For my particular problem I need to not only get the document id but also the id of the match. Suppose my original sentence was actually

Hello, I have a field which contains integer values. How do I obtain the maximum value of the column? Benjamin

People, I installed Mac OS Leopard in my old computer. Installed perfect, but I want to use pxelinux to choose boot to Mac OS. I have options to linux and windows in pxelinux options. How can I use to boot Mac OS Leopard? Samuel Rios Carvalho

Hello! I am trying to read Ferret index files from Windows machine on my Mac G5 Leopard machine, but the following returns nil: Ferret::Index::IndexReader.new( index_paths ) Should this work? Are index files guaranteed to be platform independent or not? Is there any problem if files (top direectory) are renamed? izidor P.S. I can create the index myself and then everything works.

Hi, What would it take to get the a Lucene.net index readable by Ferret? I know that there has been discussion on this before but I am trying to figure the actual amount of work (cost) would be required to get this done. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Benjamin

We are using Ferret on our site answeru.com. Today all of a sudden we started getting Ferret errors while users were trying to register or log into the system. I am not a Ferret techie - I apologize if a similar problem has already been asked or if it is not really a Ferret issue. Any ideas: IO Error occured at <except.c>:79 in xraise Error occured in fs_store.c:324 - fs_open_input

Hello list, I just started using ferret and it really doesn''t go my way. Doing gem install ferret outputs -> make install /usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 ferret_ext.so /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ ferret-0.10.13/lib make clean Successfully installed ferret-0.10.13 Installing ri documentation for ferret-0.10.13... Installing RDoc documentation for ferret-0.10.13... In ferret.rb ->

Dave and all, I run a medium RoR app using Ferret and acts_as_ferret. I get a lot of lock errors. Not always but around 5% of all searches (aspecially during peak periods). Here are the messages I get: A NameError occurred in szukaj#index: uninitialized constant Ferret::Index::Index::LockError [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:478:in

Using the current ferret gem (on Win-XP): irb(main):001:0> require ''ferret'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:950: warning: already initialized constant OPT_TABLE => true irb(main):002:0> include Ferret => Object irb(main):003:0> index = Index::Index.new => #<Ferret::Index::Index:0x3477ba8 @qp=nil, ...> irb(main):004:0> index << "This is

Hello all, I apologize in advance if this is not the correct list to post these sorts of issues. When attempting to install the latest stable build of R (2.6) or the most recent nightly build from R.research.att.com, the installer disables the ability to actually install R or any of the other bundled frameworks (i.e. the list is unchecked and grayed out). Before I start trying to either coerce the

QueryParser fails badly allocating enormous amount of memory when processing query strings with special/accented characters. See: irb(main):002:0> require ''rubygems'' irb(main):003:0> require ''ferret'' irb(main):004:0> include Ferret irb(main):005:0> index = Index::Index.new irb(main):008:0> index << "something" # Now the error