From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2005-04-13T10:00:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Odeum Inverted Index Library

I'd say it's a little lower level than Lucene, but much HIGHER level
than a Lucene+Java+GJC+CNI+Ruby implementation.  :-)

Seriously though, I'd say it's just a little lower than Lucene and would
be the major building block for a similar system.

If you're interested in dropping your labor of love and working on
something more extensive then I'd contribute as I'm going to do it
anyway.  My focus though is on code searching for specific analysis
needs.

Zed

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 21:58 +0900, Brian McCallister wrote:
> Awesome!
> 
> I've not used Odeum, but how does it compare to Lucene?
> 
> This may take some pressure off of me to get the Lucene bindings out 
> ASAP, though I am definitely still doing it -- too much bloody time 
> spent playing with GCJ and CNI already. ;-)
> 
> -Brian
> 
> On Apr 12, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Zed A. Shaw wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is just a quick announcement of a Ruby extension to Mikio
> > Hirabayashi's Odeum Inverted Index library which is part of both
> > Estraier (http://estraier.sourceforge.net/ ) and QDBM
> > (http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/ ).
> >
> > You can download the source package from:
> >
> > http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/ruby_odeum/
> >
> > Ruby/Odeum lets you index a set of documents (including meta-data) and
> > then use the resulting index to do fast searches by words.  The
> > extension supports most of the features and should become more 
> > idiomatic
> > as I work on it.
> >
> > Comments are welcomed.
> >
> > Zed
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
>