similar to: Highlighting returns entire field in Ferret trunk?

Hello list, As there is still some large file support bugs in the 0.11.4 release I had to download the trunk and apply a patch sent in by kyle http:// ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/215. The problem is now that the highlighting doesn''t work. Somehow it combines excerpt_length with num_excerpts so if you have and excerpt_length of 50 and num_excerpts of 5 and you get only one

Hi, I''m encountering another highlighting issue. (about the first one "range search and highlighting", i received no response. I don''t even know if somebody tried to reproduce and/or if it''s normal behavior) about the new issue, an example will be easier for you to reproduce: I''m filling an index with random data, i try to match for "*1*"

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, I have a largish index [700MB] which is updated from time to time, requiring me to close and recreate the Ferret::Search::Searcher to use the latest index. My problem is that the first few searches on the new index are slow [by comparison to before the close/recreate], I''m guessing because the new index is being loaded into RAM by my OS and into Ferret as needed. I''m

Hey guys, I''ve just removed the -fno-stack-protector flag from the release so those who had trouble because of this should now be able to install 0.11.2-rc3. If you have any problems with this release, please let me ASAP. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/

Hey folks, ** 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 + rails -jewelry) and phrase queries ("the quick brown fox") as well as some more

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 +

I''m using ferret 0.10.14 in Linux Fedora 3. When I do highlight with Index::Index#highlight, it works well. But, doing the same test with Searcher#highlight, [BUG] Segmentation fault occurred. Here''s my test code. require ''rubygems'' require ''ferret'' include Ferret::Search #searcher = Ferret::Index::Index.new(:path =>

Dave, thank you so much for the 0.11 release(s). You have solved many problems for me. As part of my appreciation for your good works, I am offering up for public consideration a silly little class that I wrote. (Code is below.) This class offers a simplified Hash-like interface to (a very restricted subset of) Ferret. Hence I call it FerretHash. FerretHash comes with its very own pet Ferret

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 everyone, I''m pretty new to Lucene and Ferret, so I feel that this is most likely myself not completely understanding the correct way to do this. I haved indexed ~2200 text files (of various sizes), and I am now running searches on the index to get a feel for Lucene and Ferret. In my first program, which is using Lucene I search for ''influenza'' and get the

> From: Jens Kraemer <jk at jkraemer.net> > Subject: Re: [Ferret-talk] Performance before and after optimization > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:49:17PM +0800, Alex Neth wrote: > [..] >> 2) Can I keep a second index so that it doesn''t get locked during >> optimization and then switch to the optimized index? Perhaps the >> index >> is not really

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

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

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, I''m trying to use highlight ferret method with trunk aaf and 0.10.1 ferret. In my search display I use: Myindexedclass.ferret_index.searcher.highlight(@query, result_line.id, :content) * searcher is a protected method; how can I access to the searcher from aaf ? * is the doc id in aaf the same as my model id ? * is the first param, query, the string query or the query object ?

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 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

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 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'',