On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:09:31PM +0100, Scott Wilson wrote: > I have a database shared between a Rails app (gui) and a Java app > (daemon). When the java app periodically updates the database, this > isn't reflected in Ferret indexes visible via acts_as_ferret in Rails. > How do I trigger re-indexing? Do I just make my Java daemon delete the > index files, or is there something cleverer than that..?
you could have some backgroundrb process regularly check your records for changes (i.e. by checking a 'to_index' flag or just the updated_at value). That process could then call ferret_update on the records that have been updated. cheers, Jens -- webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH www.webit.de Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur Jens Krämer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schnorrstraße 76 Tel +49 351 46766 0 D-01069 Dresden Fax +49 351 46766 66 _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk

