Hi, On 11.02.2009, at 05:11, Philip Ingram wrote:
no comma, worked like a charm.
great :-)
All the hip kids are using sphinx and there was a rumour out there that ferret hasn't been worked on for like 2 years. is that true? if you want to email me directly, i'm fine with that too, but would love to hear about the direction of the project,, and if it's not long term, i might as well go with sphinx, rake tasks and delta indexes and all... i'm launching a new site where search is going to be prevalent in it, hence these questions.
As you can see on github, the last commit to Ferret's code base was on Jan 02 this year: http://github.com/dbalmain/ferret/tree/master
I'm personally using aaf in several projects, among them a knowledge management system where search also is a key part of the application, so I'll for sure continue maintenance and development of the plugin (as time permits, which in the last few months for sure has been a problem). Patches are always welcome of course. I also plan to do a major rewrite of the whole plugin as soon as possible.
Regarding sphinx - while it might be an ok solution for really simple use cases and also might beat aaf regarding re-indexing time, it simply doesn't suit my needs when it comes to more complex scenarios. Ferret is much more capable regarding supported queries and IR features in general, and aaf's Rails integration saves you much of the maintenance hassles you mentioned. And you aren't limited to content stored in the database with Ferret and aaf - I have a project where I crawl static html via rdig and index a product database, and all can be searched at once through a simple search form...
Cheers, Jens -- Jens Krämer Finkenlust 14, 06449 Aschersleben, Germany VAT Id DE251962952 http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database
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