What about the even more obvious idea of creating a Rails front-end
to Ferret indexes? That'd be portable, and easy enough for someone
to install (and could come in handy remotely against an index on a
server too).
Erik
On Oct 7, 2006, at 12:01 AM, David Balmain wrote:
> On 10/7/06, John Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Luke doesn't seem to be able to open a Ferret index I've created. Is
>> this expected?
>>
>> If yes, can someone recommend another index inspection tool?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>
> Yes, that is expected. Jens Kraemer implemented an inspection tool a
> while back except it doesn't work with the latest version of Ferret.
> It is based on GTK. I played with it a bit earlier this week and got
> it to work with the latest version of Ferret's indexes but it still
> needs a little more testing. I'm also concerned about the portability
> of this solution. It won't work on OS X without X server installed. I
> looked at a few of the other gui options briefly but I still haven't
> decided on the best option. These were my first impressions but please
> feel free to correct me. I won't be offended.
>
> * Tk: very portable but some of the widgets I really wanted where
> missing like tabbed panes. A lot of people seem to complain about it
> being ugly I think you can fix this by installing the Tile theming
> engine for Tk.
>
> * QtRuby: We'd need to use Qt4 because of licencing issues on Windows.
> I had trouble even installing Qt4 which doesn't bode well for it and
> there is currently no binary gem for windows. I don't want to deal
> with that problem again. Other than that, QtRuby looks really nice.
>
> * WxRuby: Again no binary gem but it has the widgets I need and it
> looks pretty good because it uses native widgets. I couldn't really
> find my way around the documentation though. I wanted to quick
> tutorial to show me how everything works.
>
> * FLTK: There are bindings for this in Ruby but I actually found it
> easy to use FLTK straight from C. I quite liked this solution because
> FLTK is light enough that I could possibly package FLTK up in the
> package. Also, FLUID is a great GUI builder.
>
> Anyway, I only looked at each of these GUIs briefly. What do other
> people think an inspection tool should be built with?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
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