Great. For my own curiosity, and maybe people here share some of it: Is it possible to write your own custom analyzers for Solr? If so, how easy it is? Can one do that in Ruby or do I have to write it in Java?
I personally think that's one of the greatest things about Ferret. So far I haven't bothered looking into Sphinx or Solr precisely because, from a glance, I couldn't find a way to customize anything in detail like I can do with Ferret. I assume there is a way... Thing is, reading through the Ferret booklet (the one from OReilly), you get a glimpse of how easy it is to build custom solutions using it. So whereas it's kind of sad that the lead developer has been distant from the project in the last few months (?), I have to say, there's hardly matching how easy it is to work with it. On Nov 18, 2007 8:29 PM, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Scott Davies wrote: > > Hmmm...I'd first heard of Solr only a couple of days ago, and I hadn't > > been aware of a Ruby API to it until you mentioned it. > > Interesting...thanks! > > I've honestly given fairly little of my time to Ferret, though I have > tinkered with it some and it is mighty fine! > > Believe you me, I don't want to steal any thunder from Ferret. And > I've not compared/contrasted them much myself. Truth be told I'm > still a Java dude, and knowing that Lucene and Solr are in Java, > excel at what they are designed to do and already gulping the Apache > cool-ade I really dig Solr. > > I've presented solr+ruby a couple of times now, once at RailsConf and > then again a few weeks ago at rubyconf. > > RailsConf: > <http://www.ehatchersolutions.com/~erik/SolrOnRails.pdf> > > rubyconf: > <http://code4lib.org/files/solr-ruby.pdf> > > acts_as_solr as it exists today is sub-optimal compared to > acts_as_ferret. I'm quite admittedly not much into relational > databases so I have only tinkered in this area myself. > > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
