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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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