similar to: Ferret 0.10.6 released (and some benchmarks)

Hey folks, Sorry for cross posting like this but this is an important announcement for all Ferret users. ** 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 +

Hey folks, Since this is the Ferret mailing list I should preface this by that the donation of time and help by people like Jens Kraemer, Jan Prill and all the other people who have contributed to Ferret is just as valuable to me as any financial assistance. Thanks. Ferret has been a labour of love but it has taken up a lot more of my life than I ever expected. At in excess of 50,000 lines of

Hey folks, I just released Ferret 0.10.6. In case you haven''t noticed, we have gone beta so the API should be pretty solid now. From now on, backwards compatibility will be a major priority. Also, I''m going to try and do a better job of recording changes and making the release announcements regularly so people know what is going on. == Changes: * Fixed scoring of

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:

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

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

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

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

Hi Folks, I''ve just release Ferret 0.10.13 (skip 0.10.12, it was a bad build). There are two interesting additions to this release. You can now access the Filter#bits method of the built in filters so you can can use them in your own code, possibly within your own custom filters. For example you could implement a custom filter like so: class MultiFilter < Hash def

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

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

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( [

Hey folks, I''ve added a smoke test script to Ferret. It is named smoke_test.rb and it can be found in the base of the working directory. So what are you supposed to do with it you ask? Well, if you want to help keep Ferret working on your system of choice then set up a cron task to run this script regularly. What the script does is call `svn update` to get the latest working revision.

Hi dave, and everyone ;) I''ve finished my extension to export Index.search(..) loaded results into json. Here''s a little benchmark of what i''ve done : >> Benchmark.realtime { INDEX.search(query, :limit => 1000).hits.each { |x| INDEX[x.doc].load.to_json } } => 7.38711595535278 >> Benchmark.realtime { INDEX.search(''type:hardware'',

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

Hey all, After dabbling with ActiveSearch, we''re coming back around to take another look at Ferret. ActiveSearch slowed to a crawl after indexing about 20k documents, each 20 lines each. This time we may attempt to create multiple Ferret indexes (isolating each organization''s data individually), since we eventually could have upwards of 20k documents for some

Hey ... while davebalmain.com is not renewed (and who knows when that is going happen), i''ve put the 0.11.4 API rdocs online at: http://api.omdb-beta.org/ferret/index.html Ben

Hey folks, I''ve just put another release up. I''ve mostly just fixed some stability and memory leak issues. The most notable change is the probably the addition of a win32 gem to make life a little easier for all those Windows users out there. Also, I''ve added an index browser. Just try running; > ferret-browser path/to/index and then visit;

Hey guys, I''ve been trying out ferret 0.9.3 on my powerbook this weekend and I''ve been triggering ''bus errors'' when using the Query API. If I programmatically build up strings, it works just fine. There''s some more information available in the trac ticket http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/62 Is anyone successfully using the Query API on

I have spent days trying to figure out how to get UTF-8 working with my site. Here''s my environment: Linux version 2.6.16.29-xen_3.0.3.0 Ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24 [i386-linux] Rails 1.2.3 mongrel (1.0.1) mongrel_cluster (1.0.2, 0.2.1) ferret (0.11.4) acts_as_ferret stable plugin Ferret DRB server When I don''t use an analyzer with my acts_as_ferret declaration, everything works