Topic Archive: ferret

Installing Edge Ferret/acts_as_ferret

Anthony Caliendo, Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 2:12 pm

If you do a gem install ferret, you will be getting 0.11.6. The latest stable version of acts_as_ferret is 0.4.3. Both of these versions were released nearly a year ago in November 2007. Since then, there have been various performance improvements and bug fixes which you'll be missing out on. In order to get the latest versions, you'll need to do a little bit of work but I would recommend it if an update is feasible for you.

Since it will be the easiest, let's begin with acts_as_ferret.
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Speed Up Ferret/acts_as_ferret Bulk Indexing

Anthony Caliendo, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 5:21 pm

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Those of you using ferret 0.11.6 (the latest released gem) and acts_as_ferret 0.4.3 (the latest stable version) may have noticed that rebuilding an index can be painfully slow when working with a large number of documents. Even if each document contains a relatively small amount of text, indexing crawls with a large set of documents. The problem is a result of how bulk update works; "bulk indexing" processes a single document at a time! Fortunately, there is a simple patch which will provide a significant speed boost.

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Making acts_as_ferret, STI, and DRb Work Together

Anthony Caliendo, Wednesday, September 10, 2008 @ 4:15 pm

If you are using ferret to index a base class which has subclasses using STI, you may have seen the following error once you start using the DRb server which ferret uses for production mode:
undefined method `[]' for #<DRb::DRbUnknown:0x2501bd4>

A quick google on this error will reveal a simple fix; however, this fix might not work for you (it didn't for me). My problem was a result of using the :models option when invoking #find_ids_with_ferret. Fortunately, there is a relatively simple workaround to make ferret play nicely in this scenario.

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