Hey Eric, I've looked at the demo and am quite impressed. Thanks for making your code available!!
Cheers, Jan 2008/4/20 Eric Duminil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everybody! > > I am proud to present you a small project I have been working on for a > while: > Picolena, a documents search engine written in Rails. > ( http://picolena.devjavu.com/ ). > > It obviously uses Ferret for indexing and searching, and adds some plain > text extractors in order to index OOffice.org, pdf and MS Office > documents (and some others as well). > > Everything is packed in a gem (gem install picolena), with a few rake > tasks, a multi-threaded indexer, a language guesser, a rails frontend > and some specs to be sure everything works fine. > > I would love to hear some feedback from acts_as_ferret developers or > users! > My project is in now way supposed to be a competitor of AAF: we have > different goals (ActiveRecord indexing plugin vs. stand-alone rails-app > for documents indexing), but still a lot in common. > > I dare say Picolena would be useful in a lot of companies (as a > google-mini alternative), and has already been working in production for > a few months without a hitch. This has been made possible thanks to > Ferret's incredible speed. Kudos to the devs! > > Best regards, > Eric > > > demo website : http://citynet.hft-stuttgart.de:4000/ > trac : http://picolena.devjavu.com > rubyforge : http://rubyforge.org/projects/picolena/ > svn repo : http://svn.devjavu.com/picolena/trunk/ > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > -- Jan Prill Rechtsanwalt Grünebergstraße 38 22763 Hamburg Tel +49 (0)40 41265809 Fax +49 (0)40 380178-73022 Mobil +49 (0)171 3516667
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