I don't care about the fact that Ferret isn't able to read a Lucene index. The only problem is that when the Ferret index isn't compatible with Lucene as is the case right now (damn EOF errors), you are not able to use Luke to take a quick peek inside the index. So a port of Luke to access Ferret would be great.
Ferret should be fast, have the power of Lucene searches and be easy to access from Ruby, as it is right now. If you are going to use Lucene, go all the way and stick to Java. Only problem with Ferret is that the C version isn't available on Windows (for testing purposes) yet, but that is being worked on. GJC and SWIG sounds great but setting it up is a real pain in the ass, great for techies, but horrible for all the others. Solr looks a promising project, only problem I have with it is that you need Tomcat and a JVM. This adds two more variables to your configuration you have to control. Great if you know Java, but I'm programming in Ruby so I don't have to program in Java or .NET, or whatever. So I prefer a Ruby only environment for it's simplicity. So Luke is a definite plus as a debugging tool. Kind regards, Nick -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
