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Hi All, As some of you may have noticed, the Ferret Wiki has been getting spammed like crazy. And I haven''t been able to do anything about it because I just don''t have the time. I''m getting pretty close to releasing 0.10.0 which has been the major draw on my time for the last couple of months so I''m going to have some time to look into this soon. I was

Gents, I successfully installed AAF on my TextDrive OpenSolaris Container, but I''m having some issues with indexing. I have a model called Blogs which has AAF enabled. The first time I tried to find_by_contents for a ''word'' I know was on the Database I got now results. Apparently the index was not ready yet. Then I waited a few hours and checked that the /index

Hi all, maybe not a Ferret question, but I assume here might have came across that already. I wrote a simple CGI app that adds docs into a Ferret index. The idea is testing asian languages input and searching. The script that does the input seems to be OK. As David mentioned in a question I made a little while ago, Ferret''s index is agnostic, in the sense that you can store anything in

Hey all, I''m getting some really weird results when searching documents. It *seems* to be somehow related to the document format I''m using. I wrote a small script to replicate it: ################ #!/usr/bin/ruby require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' include Ferret index = Index::Index.new(:path => ''/tmp/fooindex'', :key

Is Ferret''s SVN repository down? I''m trying to get the source from svn://davebalmain.com/ferret, but I keep getting "Connection Refused" errors. Did the URL change, or is Ferret''s repository really down? -- Bira http://compexplicita.wordpress.com http://compexplicita.tumblr.com

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:

Hi guys, Having committed a fairly large project to ferret I''m a little concerned that ferret svn has been essentially unavailable for weeks (pretty much every time I try I get "can''t connect") and more so now that davebalmain.com has gone off the air. Without meaning to pry, does anyone know whether existing problems in ferret are likely to get fixed? (I can get

Hi Dave, I''ve been getting some segment faults while running my tests using 0.10.14 gem so I decided to package the gem locally to add -dH and generate core dumps for you. So I followed instructions here http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/DownloadCurrent and first off ran the tests. I''m getting the following failures. (see this pastie http://pastie.caboo.se/34790). I

Hi, I''ve just updated rails from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1 and I''m getting the following errors whenever I load a page that uses a class that uses ferret. I have ferret 0.10.13 and acts_as_ferret. They were working fine before the upgrade. #<NameError: cannot remove Object::WildcardQuery>

Hi all, I''ve posted that few weeks ago but no one answered, but this feature is REALLY important for us. I have many objects with a url field, of course containing standards urls... I''m trying to match them but i actually got problems with that. Here''s a little code of what i would like to achieve: require ''rubygems'' require

I''ve been unable to check the svn repository for a week or more, I get "Can''t connect to host ''svn.davebalmain.com'': Connection refused". Anyone know what''s going on? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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( [

The ferret webpage at http://ferret.davebalmain.com/ has been down for a number of days. Any idea what''s going on? or how to notify the webmaster? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

According to the following link: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/QueryParser.html :handle_parser_errors => true is enabled by default and seems to be in acts_as_ferret in class_methods.rb of the plugin. However, when I pass a special character as a query (e.g., !, -, <, >, etc) it throws an error and pukes. -- snip -- Error occured in src/q_parser.y:279 - yyerror

Hi- I was previously using 0.11.4, and I wrote my own analyzer. Everything worked fine. When I took the system to production, 0.11.4 starting failing updating the index, complaining that files were missing. The failure always happened on the same model document, and was completely reproducible. This failure looked a lot like the one described at http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/104145. I

Hi I use acts_as_ferret on an app that is in Danish and English. In Danish english words like "and" and "under" has meaning. Is it possible to make ferret search for these words? As it is now a seach for "under" returns nothing even-though I know the word is present in the index. Cheers Mattias

Say the user first enters "ruby" for search and gets 1000 results. Then he can search "rails" just in the 1000 results just returned. The common scenario is some kind of advanced search. User can incrementally add criteria and the program will narrow the results step by step. I know that at least I can use all the criteria as a whole to do the searching, but this is a waste

I''m trying to index ~130,000 documents [soon to grow to about 500,000 documents] and I''m wondering if its possible to combine ferret databases or in some other way split up the building process. Normally, indexing 130k documents wouldn''t be that painful except that there are different types of links between these documents and they are not absolute (so for example

Hi, Using aaf to search pages, I wanted to present excerpts from the texts even when more than one term was used in the search. I came to some results, despite the difficulty caused by Unicode+ruby. The last problem I''m faced is to get the query words, without the logical articulation chars if any. Is there a clean way to get them ? -- Jean-Christophe Michel

hi, i''ve to choose a search engine for a medium-big site with a lot of searches and inserts at the same moment, do you suggest me something? i''m thinking about ferret, but i read that it has some problems with this king of "work" :( -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.