From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T01:42:24+09:00
Subject: ferret: wildcard field search dies

Using the current ferret gem (on Win-XP):

irb(main):001:0> require 'ferret'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:950: warning: already initialized constant 
OPT_TABLE
=> true

irb(main):002:0> include Ferret
=> Object

irb(main):003:0> index = Index::Index.new
=> #<Ferret::Index::Index:0x3477ba8 @qp=nil, ...>

irb(main):004:0> index << "This is a new doc"
=> nil

irb(main):005:0> index.search_each('*:this') do |d, s| puts d end
NoMethodError: undefined method `weight' for nil:NilClass
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.2.2/lib/ferret/search/index_searcher.rb:104:in
`search'
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.2.2/lib/ferret/index/index.rb:588:in 
`do_search
'
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.2.2/lib/ferret/index/index.rb:291:in 
`search_ea
ch'
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.2.2/lib/ferret/index/index.rb:290:in 
`synchroni
ze'
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.2.2/lib/ferret/index/index.rb:290:in 
`search_ea
ch'
        from (irb):5
irb(main):006:0>