From: David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T16:46:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ferret 0.1.0 (Port of Java Lucene) released

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Hi Peter,

Welcome aboard. With all the people who are coming to ruby because of rails=
,
it's great to hear my project has helped to convert someone. I hope you
enjoy it here.

Cheers,
Dave

On 10/28/05, peter.r.bailey@gmail.com <peter.r.bailey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have to say that the combination of Ruby, Eclipse, and Ferret have
> just blown me away today. I've gone from knowing that Ruby existed (for
> several years in fact), to thinking that I should check it out over the
> last couple of months, to reading some of the doc yesterday, to having
> a complete running installation of Ruby (through the One Click Windows
> installer), with Eclipse layered on top, and Ferret installed and
> operational - at least for this test example - in the space of 4 hours!
>
> Really looking forward to the UTF-8 support too - some Google searching
> on Ruby and UTF-8 led me to Ferret in the first place. Looks like an
> absolutely great platform to do experiments in information retrieval
> with - which is just what I need.
>
> Well done and many thanks!
>
> Peter
>
>
>

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