Pulkit, > I've used ruby and ferret for the past one month to index resumes. Now I > need a web front-end to the application and the obvious choice turns out > to > be rails. But as I'm not interested in using a database and intend to just > use the index, I'm not sure as to how to put it into the MVC framework as > the model implicitly takes a database. Is there a way it can take an index > instead by using acts_as_ferret.
There are other web frameworks (like http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/) so you don't necessarily need to use rails. However, even in Rails you model classes must not inherit from ActiveRecord. It's just that all tutorials, screencasts, etc. focus on db-model classes. Its perfectly fine to create a non-db model class (based on Object), that acts as a wrapper for ferret. acts_as_ferret is just a bridge between you db objects and ferret. so if you do not have db objects (and therefore don't inherit from AR), you can't use acts_as_ferret (at least not without some non-trivial changes). I would suggest to build a ferret-model-object that handels all search requests. Ben _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
