Thanks for all the info, I just found a very good related discussion from ruby-forum which I thought I'd share
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/137629 On Wednesday, August 27, at 11:57, arvind gautam wrote: > How bout Sphinx? > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Eric Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > I would also be interested in Ferret alternatives for IR in ruby, a > > simple search on rubyforge returned mainly a bunch of projects that > > look to be abandoned... > > > > - Rise (does not appear to be actively developed) > > - rubylucene (looks to be a dead project) > > - Ruby Simple Indexer (also looks dead) > > - Ruby Odeum (simple ruby-bindings for a fast inverted index) > > > > If anyone knows of any ruby IR projects which are mature, and are > > being actively developed I would love to hear about them. > > > > Thanks -- Eric > > > > On Wednesday, August 27, at 10:29, Paul Lynch wrote: > > > I've been using Ferret in a project still under development, and it > > > works pretty well. As far as I can tell, the project is dying, if not > > > already dead. David Balmain is still the only listed developer, and > > > he seems to have moved on to other things. However, since the > > > software is still meeting my project's needs, I am not terribly > > > bothered by that. I suppose that eventually (in a few years?) > > > something will change enough that Ferret will stop working, and then > > > we'll have to find something else. > > > > > > If you can find an alternative that has active development, I would > > > recommend you go with that. (And if you find one, please post about > > > it.) But, if you can't, Ferret will probably be good enough for a > > > while. > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Fernando Parisotto > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm new on the list, and glad to participate. > > > > I would like to make some questions about the ferret project... > > > > - Is the http://ferret.davebalmain.com/ official page of the project? > > (I'm > > > > always getting 502 Bad Gateway) > > > > - Where I can find the road map of the project? > > > > - In the http://rubyforge.org/projects/ferret/ I see the last realize > > was in > > > > November 28, 2007, that is true? > > > > - Is ferret discontinued? > > > > > > > > Please don't take this questions as offensive, I really like to know > > about > > > > how ferret is reliable for a long life product. > > > > Here on my company we are planning to make a big product with a > > indexing > > > > engine, I would like to know if the ferret is "alive". > > > > Thanks for the answers! > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Atenciosamente - Best regards, > > > > > > > > Fernando Luiz Parisotto > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ferret-talk mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Paul Lynch > > > Aquilent, Inc. > > > National Library of Medicine (Contractor) > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ferret-talk mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > > > > -- > > schulte > > _______________________________________________ > > Ferret-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > > -- schulte _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
