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The following instance methods seem to be missing from the Ferret::Document::Field class in Ferret 0.9.0 using compiled C extensions: #string_value, #reader_value and #binary_value. They are in the pure ruby implementation). I got round it by mixing in hacked versions of the pure Ruby methods (@data replaced by self.data). Many thanks for Ferret it''s shaping up to being a killer app

Hi. First of all I would like to say "thank you" to David for its really valuable work. Ferret is a great project and it have great future. Well now is my questions as beginner in Ferret. How to remove ALL documents from index. Remove files is not a solution. I am interesting in something like index.remove_index or something like this. What is a usual way of doing it?? What is the

Hi all, I was playing with the sample project found on the Wiki at http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToIntegrateFerretWithRails , and everything was working fine, ... till I moved to EdgeRails : undefined method `weight'' for #<Hash:0x22c7150> (full error thread below) Any idea? Alain

I have found very little information about this problem on the net, so i thought someone here might be able to help me. I am running mac os x 10.4 on a powerbook and have installed ruby 1.8.6 and was trying to get ferret to work, without any success. Here is exactly what i did and what happened: $ sudo gem install ferret Updating metadata for 125 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org

Currently, I have a link_to_remote like this: <%= link_to_remote("Get Results", :update => ''query_results'', :with => "''tags='' + $F(''query_tags'')", :loading => "new Effect.Appear(''comment_loading'')", :complete

I''ve installed the latest version of Ferret (0.10.13) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (Tiger) and I''m developing using Locomotive2. I installed with: $ gem install ferret I have a ferret_test.rb file: ----begin--------- require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' include Ferret index = Index::Index.new(:path => ''/opt/search-index'')

Hi I need to pass a query string for a search to a controller from the view. View: <%= start_form_tag(:action => ''get_results'') %> <%= text_field ''search'', ''search_term'' %> <%= submit_tag "Search" %> <%= end_form_tag %> Controller: def get_results(query)

Hi all :) 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 ''ferret'' require ''ftools'' class TestAnalyzer def token_stream(field, str) ts =

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

The current full-text search will return the AND collection results,for example,if we use Article.search("aa bb"),then the articles that include "aa" and "bb" in the fields will be returned,how to return the articles that include "aa" OR "bb" effectly? A stumb method is to setup two queries respectly and collect them together with remove the

I''m trying to use has_many :through, since my join model deserves being more than just an intersection table. But when I try to break the association, the break only seems "temporary": Let''s say my two tables are Users and Colors, and the join model is Favorites. user = Users.find(1) user.colors.length >> 2 c = user.colors.first >> #<Color:....>

I''m just wondering where I would put the pagination for search results when using "acts_as_ferret". At the moment my search code is.. def search @query = params[:query] || '''' unless @query.blank? @results = Tutorial.find_by_contents @query end end Cheers SchmakO -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m currently writing a system that stores user-created documents. Each user belongs to a specific group, and the system supports multiple groups. The thing is, my users want to be able to hide pieces of a document from other groups. So for example, lets say Joe of team A has written this document: "Hello all, our secret plan is finally complete! <private>We will begin

I''ve implemented Ferret, using the instructions here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToIntegrateFerretWithRails I get no errors in the application at all... however, I always get 0 results. I built an index off of some data, it exists in the index/ directory, the form submits find... etc... Just 0 results... all the time :) I confirmed the data from my models is being put

I have a large table (> 20,000 records) with text columns for which I need to build a search function. Is there a "Rails" way to index all the entries and NOT search using LIKE? "LIKE" searches can get very slow and I would rather build an index of the columns to speed up things. Just want to know if there is something like "acts_as_indexable"

Hello all I''m using Ferret for a site wide search where I have several kinds of (similar) objects in a central index (using a "type" field containing the class name). This works great, and I can search all objects with one query. What I''d like to do now is to limit the results so that there will be a maximum of 10 (or 5 or whatever) results for each type.. I

After my action has run for about 2 minutes i always get a timeout. It doesn''t happen with WEBRICK. As far as i can see there is nothing wrong with the code "execution expired RAILS_ROOT: config/.. Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace /opt/tools/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `clone_attributes''

Ok so I am at a point that I read my entire book front to back and around and a around. And now digging through it again .. But I am now missing a key piece to the clues is the api. I found http://www.gotapi.com/index.html as a great search tool. But I can''t make heads or tails of it besides a basic search for exactly what I am looking for by word. But if I dont know the word I am

Hi, I have @result_pages and @results obtained from paginate in an action. I want to show the pages as 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 > The fifth page will show: < 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 > and so on. How exactly do I render the paginator to give this effect? I guess I will have to use pagination_links_each. But being new to Rails, I need help. Thanks, Yash -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi David again. I would say that Ferret works great with Rails. And now I am trying to create pagination. Because site could have millions of documents I need to create on page link something like "Page #100". Rather usual situation. But to create this links I need to know how many documents Ferret found in index. For now I am doing it with following code index =