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I''m at a point where I''d like to start adding search capability to my app, so I thought I''d ask: Anyone have any recommendations for a good Rails search library/plugin/etc? There seem to be quite a few different ones out there, but I don''t have much context on any of them. What is the difference between using Ferret, or a SearchGenerator, SimpleSearch,

i want to tag categories to its menuname. i have a csv containing menu item name and in other csv i have a column containing some strings, i want to pick that strings from categories and look into menu items if any menu item containing that string i want to create a new column next to menu item name flagged as 1 otherwise 0 and the only condition is once a menu item flagged as 1 i don't need

Hi guys, I am using acts_as_ferret to do full text search on my models and I am having problem on three-letter word searches. I am going to use an example to explain my problem. Here it is: There is a table called users and it has login, first_name, last_name columns. There are three rows inside it. login first_name last_name bob bob henry longbob nil

hi, guys: two acts_as_ferret questions! 1, ruby script/plugin install svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret sh: svn: command not found i can not install acts_as_ferret to my Rails project. what''s wrong? i''m useing rhel 4! 2, i downloaded the acts_as_ferret-0.4.0.tgz at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2916&release_id=10617 and uploaded to

How to add Chinese language full text searching function by using acts_as_ferret? RegExpAnalyzer.new(/./,false) this analyzer, i don''t know how to use it! does it works like this: user searching---->acts_as_ferret---->ferret ???? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I''m using the older win32 happy backgroundrb in combination with the ''acts_as_ferret'' install as a plugin. Since I''ve installed acts_as_ferret, I haven''t been able to get backgroundrb to start. It keeps failing at the ''acts_as_ferret'' method call in one of my models. Here''s a code snippet of the model: class Book

This is what happens when i try to get acts_as_ferret ...."nothing much".... Please help me and excuse me if its really dumb, i''m new to this! thanks C:\rails\app>gem install ferret Attempting local installation of ''ferret'' Local gem file not found: ferret*.gem Attempting remote installation of ''ferret'' Updating Gem source index for:

Hi, I''m trying to get the acts_as_ferret plugin to work with my rails application, but it barfs with this error: No such file or directory - ./index/development/Book/segments I have existing data in my database, but it was added prior to me using the ferret plugin. How do I get it to index that data, or when does it index that data? Charlie -- Posted via

Hi, this is hopefully an easy one, but I''ve gone through the api and searched past forum entries, and am drawing a blank. I have a model that with acts_as_ferret mixed in to it, which is working fine. But I want users to be able to set a ''private'' attribute on the model, and when it''s set to true, create and update methods would skip indexing. So, how can I

Hi all, when I type this: ruby script/plugin install svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret from my rails project the plugin is not getting installed, its simply going back to my rails application. I don''t find the plugin in the vendor/plugin directory I am using Instant Rails for your information. Could anyone please let me know whats going wrong...

Hi, There is a problem with the way that acts_as_ferret verifies the index is valid. In ensure_index_exists it looks for a file named ''segments''. With the 0.11.0 release of ferret there is no file with this name. On my dummy application I have a ''segments.gen'' and ''segments_2y''. Changing the test to segments.gen fixes the problem that the

Hi folks, I just released version 0.4.1 fixing several bugs and bringing the DRb server''s index versioning feature to the stable branch. Please see [1] for more changes. Cheers, Jens [1] http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/query?status=closed&milestone=0.4.1 -- Jens Kr?mer http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database

Hi all, the current acts_as_ferret trunk is now ported to Ferret 0.10. Get it while it''s hot at svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/trunk/plugin Nearly everything works, besides this: - all queries are ORed (no way to tell the QueryParser to build AND queries by default) - more_like_this is broken I''m working with Dave to fix these things soon. The last Ferret 0.9.x

How do I use a model that has "acts_as_ferret" defined outside rails? I''ve tried adding this to the top of my model: require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/acts_as_ferret.rb" and then defining RAILS_ROOT and RAILS_ENV in my app that uses the model outside rails. That got me this exception:

I am currently using activerecord without rails and I''d like to use the acts_as_ferret plugin as it works well with activerecord. How do I take advantage of the acts_as_ferret without rails installed? Is this possible? If someone could provide me with direction on how this would be done, that would be greatly appreciated. I assume that since active record works without rails that all

Hi all, I''ve ran into a problem with Ferret on my rails app, and I don''t really have a clue about why. When running the unit tests, I get the following error output: > Exception raised: > Class: <NoMethodError> > Message: <"You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!\nThe > error occured while evaluating nil.version"> >

Hi, I''m running the edge Typo and the latest acts_as_ferret plugin and ferret gems (as of 11 April). In my Content model I put acts_as_ferret :fields => [:title, :body] In the console, I call Content.rebuild_index to index all of my existing content. All the directories get created etc, but I get the following error back: Loading development environment. >>

The svn repository for acts_as_ferret has just been tagged with version 0.2.1. This is the first version of aaf to support the 0.9.x branch of Ferret. See http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/wiki *Features* * High speed full text search across the contents of any Rails model class, without any hassles. The index will be kept up to date automagically while you work with your Rails

I posted this issue as a bug on the acts_as_ferret trac (http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/ticket/36) but need to get this working asap. so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. To try and sum this up in better terms than I used in the original bug report, the problem I am experiencing seems to be related to the fact I am using inheritance in my controllers. I

hi folks, I have been trying to use acts_as_ferret in my rails app.I have installed the ferret gem.I would like to download acts_as_ferret gem and then install it offline.But i was unable to find any link for download..please let me know if any one has did it before... any help appreciated...thanks in advance.... regards, venkat -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.