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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

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 List and especially Dave, I just happened to remember a discussion on the mailing list, that you (Dave) are thinking and maybe even working on Ferret becoming kind of an object database that fully circumvents the SQL-Store on occasions where this might be appropriate (http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/82086#142613). I''m using ferret quite heavily at the moment for a private project of

Hi I''ve written ferret_helper.rb (FerretHelper module) containing wrapper methods for converting PDF, HTML, Open Document and Microsoft Word files to plain text for the Ferret index analysers. To help test it I wrote a simple ff.rb (Ferret Finder) command-line utility to index and search document files. You can download the code at http://www.methods.co.nz/ff/ Cheers, Stuart --

Greetings. I have just successfully updated a RH-9 file server to CentOS-3.1. I'm VERY impressed. I have a client who has 4 Redhat servers (1 x 7.3 and 3 x 9.0) that I would like to migrate to CentOS-3.1. Question: My client is willing to send a donation for these boxes but they just want to send you (caosity.org) a check that will cover the next couple of years. Who do we make the

I have a few thoughs and questions about donating to Xiph that I hop you have a minute for. Here we go: == "Who donated what" list == As it seems we don't have a "Who donated what" list. I thought creating such a list could increase motivation to donate to some parties. What I currently have in mind would be to start listing donations from now on below the current content

Hey guys, Sorry I haven''t been around for the last few days. I''ve just finished a coding marathon fixing up some of the performance problems in Ferret. If you don''t know what I''m talking about there has been a problem with Filters and Sorts on large indexes. Well, I think I''ve fixed the problem. Before: dbalmain at ubuntu:~/workspace/exp_old/c $

Hi folks, Just thought I better let you all know that I''m still working on the next release of Ferret. I''ve been working the last 7 days doing nothing but Ferret development. The last iteration generated a diff of almost 5000 lines so there are some pretty major changes. Most people won''t notice these changes however as the API remains unchanged. But if you were having

Hi all, Having problems trying to get Ferret to read an index generated by Lucene. Am I right in thinking Ferret should be able to read a Lucene generated index no problem? Using the code snippets detailed in http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/64099#new Any advice gratefully received. Many Thanks, Steven -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello list, I just started using ferret and it really doesn''t go my way. Doing gem install ferret outputs -> make install /usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 ferret_ext.so /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ ferret-0.10.13/lib make clean Successfully installed ferret-0.10.13 Installing ri documentation for ferret-0.10.13... Installing RDoc documentation for ferret-0.10.13... In ferret.rb ->

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( [

I installed ferret and it cleaned me out!!! I do the following: __________________________ # gem install ferret Need to update 4 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org .... complete Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-linux) 1. ferret 0.11.4 (ruby) 2. ferret 0.11.4 (mswin32) 3. ferret 0.11.3 (ruby) 4. ferret 0.11.2 (ruby) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation > 3 Building

I''m running Ferret 0.9.5 on a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.4.7) under Locomotive 2.0.7. I have a problem where Ferret is hanging when I try to add items to the index. It doesn''t happen with every object that''s being indexed, and I''m not sure what the objects in question have in common (they are not all instances of the same ActiveRecord object). The process

Up to now in my ferret development I have been using simple single-word strings as my search queries. I just now am trying to increase the complexity of my queries. When I was passing a single word with no spaces in my index searches, like so: count = index.search_each(''testing'') do |d, s| ... end everything worked fine. But now when I do something like this: count =

I''ve gotten several problems with C ferret crashing ruby. Here''s the stack trace of my latest case: #0 0x00000050 in ?? () #1 0xb74028ab in iw_close (iw=0x8685a40) at index_rw.c:947 #2 0xb7414359 in index_destroy (self=0x829ebc0) at ind.c:89 #3 0xb73f00bc in frt_ind_free (p=0x829ebc0) at r_search.c:1564 #4 0xb7f04dca in rb_gc_call_finalizer_at_exit () from

There is serious memory leak bug in ferret. I''m having this error on TextDrive Container (aka. Joyent Accelerators) OpenSolaris with Ferret 0.11.4 It happens while searching for some terms with accented or special characters. This makes ferret to allocate lots of memory (usually reaching 3+ GB) and failing if another query like this is executed. Any ideas on that, could this be locale

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

i have this error when i try to install ferret C:\Documents and Settings\>gem install ferret Need to update 6 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org ...... complete Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. ruby extconf.rb install ferret creating Makefile nmake

Dave and all, I run a medium RoR app using Ferret and acts_as_ferret. I get a lot of lock errors. Not always but around 5% of all searches (aspecially during peak periods). Here are the messages I get: A NameError occurred in szukaj#index: uninitialized constant Ferret::Index::Index::LockError [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:478:in

During our last week of Ferret / aaf usage (also our first week of Ferret / aaf usage), I have received 8 messages stating that our app encountered a Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException. For instance: A Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException occurred in foo#search: Error occurred in src/q_parser.y:279 - yyerror couldn''t parse query "com -- 404". Error message