similar to: Ferret-talk Digest, Vol 25, Issue 2

Thanks Stuart. I thought I had read somewhere that rebuild_index built the index in a different location and then swapped it, but after looking at the code (in local_index.rb) this doesn''t appear to be the case. That might explain why the ferret server crashes sometimes when a search takes place during a reindex. I wouldn''t be doing exactly the same thing as this but

Hi all, there was a recent thread[1] on rails-deploy about Ferret in which a lot of people complained of problems using it in production. I''ve been using Ferret (with DRb) for many months now with no serious issues. I''m assuming the posters know what they''re doing so I''m guessing they''re just using Ferret in higher-scale environments than me. I

Hi, I''m trying to figure out how to compile ferret with large file support, but none of the topics that discuss this actually say How this is done. Can someone please provide the info? thanks. -m my exact problem: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/94143#191630 this topic also discusses the issue: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/84237#151791 this topic says that the FAQ should have the

Thanks for the response Jens. Indeed I am sorting by something other than relevancy, so that would explain it. Optimized, it''s extremely fast and handles a good load, but new records kill it until I optimize. I haven''t tried :merge_factor as I wasn''t aware of it. I''m not sure it will help given the above. Regarding the re-index locking code,

I'm not an LDAP expert and I need an help to understand the following situation. I'm configuring a web LDAP addressbook (roundcube) against a Samba 4.4 DC to use simple binds over ldaps://. My troubles with Samba 4 DC start when the server response contains a referral with ldap:// URI scheme.  The client fails without messages to error logs. This does not happen against a Windows Server

I''m running: ferret (0.10.9) ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32] on Windows XP(SP2) When I create an index as follows: field_infos = FieldInfos.new(:store => :yes, :term_vector => :no, :index => :yes) field_infos.add_field(:id, :index => :untokenized) field_infos.add_field(:subject) field_infos.add_field(:author) field_infos.add_field(:tags, :store => :no) index =

Just a quick note for future reference - at least for me, ferret won''t work on Ruby 1.8.4. gem install ferret Successfully installed ferret-0.11.4-mswin32 ruby -v ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32] irb irb(main):001:0> require ''ferret'' A windows error message box appears - ruby.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point rb_w32_write could not be

Hi, I have a model which has properties, these are your standard name/value pairs, but also have attributes that affect how I want to store them in ferret. I was using 0.9.5 with 0.2 of aaf, which seemed fine, I just copied and pasted (yes, I know, ick) the to_doc method and added code to iterate though the properties that that model had, and add relavent fields to the document. It seems

The following script creates a search index and then searches it. I get no results? Where am I going wrong? Thanks. -----------BEGIN SCRIPT---------------- require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' include Ferret path = ''/tmp/myindex'' field_infos = Ferret::Index::FieldInfos.new() field_infos.add_field(:name, :store => :yes, :index => :yes)

I''ve been messing around with Ferret (no punn intended). After spending some time testing it out (indexing to file), I decided to index about 10% of the data I want to eventually index. It took several hours to complete the index on my local machine, but it was created without any problems and after optimising it the searches returned results at the sort of speed I was expecting. I

Hi, I''m new to using ferret (and fairly new to ruby/rails) and I''m having a problem I can''t fathom. Sorry for the long post ... I have a test which passes require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' include Ferret require ''test/unit'' class CompanyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase def test_index puts ''running

Hi, I''m new to using ferret (and fairly new to ruby/rails) and I''m having a problem I can''t fathom. Sorry for the long post ... I have a test which passes require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' include Ferret require ''test/unit'' class CompanyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase def test_index puts ''running

Hi all, first off, it''s 2AM and I''m not thinking properly, so please forgive me if this one''s easy, but I just need to get this going. First problem, using 0.9.6 on all of our development machines, works great, then we move it to a server running x86_64 linux and it segfaults as soon as it tries to create an Index. I''ve tried rebuilding with different

Is it possible to query the index for a TermEnum for all fields in the index instead of just ? Thanks, John

I have an index with a few hundred thousand records. The index is generally very fast, with sub 100ms responses. However if I start adding records, it gets extremely slow, up to over 2 seconds per query. This is true even if I am not currently indexing until I optimize the index. In order to work around this, I index in bulk and immediately optimize. This is not ideal for the

Hi, We have an index of around 1M web pages as part of our web app. The app uses ferret by way of RDig to perform searches. We have noticed anecdotally that some searches don''t work the way we thought they should, as if documents were missing from the index. Yesterday we came upon a concrete instance of this. Our documents have several fields, one of which is called :keywords and

Hi folks, Firstly, the first: dovecot --version 2.2.10 dovecot -n # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core) auth_debug = yes auth_krb5_keytab = /var/lib/dovecot/krb5.keytab auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login gssapi auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /dev/null default_process_limit = 400

Hi! I thought I understood Ferret''s query scoring and how to tweak results using boost values. What I currently experience however, leaves me completely baffled. Perhaps someone can shed some light on the scoring algorithm, because asking Ferret to "explain" the score for a particular document isn''t as informative as I thought. Actually, it confuses me even

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 =>

This program reliably crashes for me (usually a segfault): require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' reader=Ferret::Index::IndexReader.new ARGV fields=reader.field_infos.fields reader.max_doc.times{|n| fields.each{|field| reader.term_vector(n,field) } unless reader.deleted?(n) print "."; STDOUT.flush } As you can see, it just goes through