On Nov 21, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Scott Davies wrote: > My guess is that JRuby+Lucene+DRb will be a fine choice in a few > months...
Definitely not a bad choice. However I still implore you to give Solr another chance. More on that.... > Meanwhile, I'm hoping to avoid Solr because it seems (1) kind of > complicated for what I'd actually get out of it in my particular > application How so? It's a "search server" with the same goals that I imagine you'd have for the JRuby+Lucene+DRb combination. It's not really complicated, especially with the solr-ruby library. Add documents, delete them, query for them. Leverage highlighting and more-like these features, dismax querying, etc. > , (2) not particularly well-documented given its size Wow. Have you seen the Solr wiki? http://wiki.apache.org/solr - there are nooks and crannies documented on that wiki that go well beyond what I'd consider good documentation. By all means point me to areas that aren't documented that you need to know (off list) and I'll get those taken care of. > (3) likely to get in my way when I want to do anything low-level and > gnarly with Lucene. Maybe, but not much in your way. You'd have to wrap your low-level mojo inside some Solr API perhaps, but not even if we're just talking about custom analyzers or similarity implementation. > Which would be a shame, because Ferret does hold a lot of > promise.. hear hear! I definitely extend major kudos to Dave and the other Ferret contributors. Great stuff. Erik _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
