Don't even try running ferret on a shared host. I don't think you really have any other option but MySQL fulltext indexes in a shared hosting environment.
AEM On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Harry Seldon < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jérémie Bordier wrote: > > On Mar 17, 12:45 am, lamyseba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Seems like the maintenance is back, just have a look at the trac > >> timeline, dbalmain seems to be the new maintenance guy > > > > Lol, dbalmain has always been the one and only coder of Ferret, he's > > back but his current commits only fixes a very little bugs and add > > more features such as compression with zlib... Adding feature instead > > of fixing existing and CORE ones ? Have fun guys :) > > > > I REALLY hope ferret to become stable one day since it's the most > > flexible and easy to use product i've seen for this job, but don't use > > it in production now.. > > > > J�r�mie. > > Hi, > > That is a very interesting thread. I am currently deploying a rails app > with aaf. I have many troubles and basically I cannot have it working. I > am surprised because everything was so simple in development. > > I must admit that I understand nothing to the DRB server. (I am learning > this new thing.) > My app is on a shared host. I do not even understand if the drb server > can run on it... > > When I run : script/ferret_server -e production start > I get : starting ferret server... > That is all > But when I stop it (script/ferret_server -e production start) I get : > ferret_server doesn't appear to be running > I guess it is not normal (can someone confirm please ?)... > > Then when I do script/console production > Article.rebuild_index > I get the first time : > DRb::DRbConnError: druby://ferret.myhost.com:9010 - #<SocketError: > getaddrinfo: Name or service not known> > And if I do it a second time : > LoadError: Expected article.rb to define Article > > Whatever bad I am, this is just an awful behavior for a software, sorry > to say that because I loved aaf in dev. > > (I tried a chmod -R 777 index without success) > For info I am deploying with Capistrano, in case it rings a bell to > someone. > > My options : > more help from my host, I am currently discussing with them > help from you about the aaf configuration > but even if I make it work, from what I have read here I should not > build my app with it... > try another search engine : sphinx > but I read from brfsa "FERRET is in my second choice only because > shared hosts won't support sphinx...." Can I have any precision on that > ? Or alternatively for those of you on a shared host how do you manage > your search ? > > Finally, I am listening to your suggestions about : > the web host : which ones allow a search engine such as > ferret/sphinx/other ? > how to configure aaf ? > Which plugins for the engine ? (Do not worry I will read again the whole > thread!) > > Thx ! > H > > > > > > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > -- Adrian Esteban Madrid Lead Developer, Prefab Markets http://www.prefabmarkets.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
