From derek at xrip.com  Wed Jun 10 17:55:22 2009
From: derek at xrip.com (Derek Ferguson)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:55:22 -0700
Subject: [Ferret-talk] Ferret::Index::Index#scan
Message-ID: <E9A5A793-A03E-4239-BB90-2DD6DCFCA980@xrip.com>

Hi everyone, I'm having trouble with the Index scan() method. When I  
call it, I receive a 'private method called' error. Example:

index.scan('blah')
-> private method `scan' called for #<Ferret::Index::Index:0xb7c15374>  
(NoMethodError)

I tried it on the searcher as well:

index.searcher.scan('blah')
-> private method `scan' called for #<Ferret::Search::Searcher: 
0xb7c0161c> (NoMethodError)


scan() docs:
http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Index/Index.html#M000024

I'm using ferret-0.11.6.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks,

Derek

From christian.aust at software-consultant.net  Sun Jun 14 06:41:04 2009
From: christian.aust at software-consultant.net (Christian Aust)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:41:04 +0200
Subject: [Ferret-talk] aaF: How can I retrive a list of terms for a
	document's field?
Message-ID: <33FC0B57-B5CB-4832-9154-EECBED0A5265@software-consultant.net>

Hi all,

my Rails 2.3.2 model uses acts_as_ferret. I need to break down the  
contents of a field into a list of words, which is almost the same  
Ferret did when indexing the field. Can I somehow access the  
TermVectors for this particular document to use the same list of words  
that Ferret used for indexing?

Kind regards,

Christian

p.s.: Sorry for two separate messages, that's to have two individual  
subject lines.

From christian.aust at software-consultant.net  Sun Jun 14 06:35:54 2009
From: christian.aust at software-consultant.net (Christian Aust)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:35:54 +0200
Subject: [Ferret-talk] GeoSearch with Ferret
Message-ID: <18C3012D-E28A-4359-8AA8-1044587E13E2@software-consultant.net>

Hi all,

unfortunately, the site tourb.us has been closed, but the wayback  
machine still reveals their approach to geo-searches with ferret [1].  
In 2006, Dave (Balman?) replied that things could be handled  
differently in later versions. I'm new to Ferret/Ruby/Rails (although  
I've extensive experiences with Lucene/Java) so I'm wondering if that  
actually was implemented, and how such code should look like today. I  
couldn't find an example or tutorial, can anybody please help out?

Kind regards,

Christian

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20071223222924rn_1/blog.tourb.us/archives/ferret-and-location-based-searches/