From: David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>
Date: 2005-12-03T09:36:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ferret 0.3.0 (port of Apache Lucene to pure ruby)

On 12/3/05, Alan Garrison <alang@cronosys.com> wrote:
> David Balmain wrote:
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> >== Description
> >
> >Ferret is a full port of the Java Lucene searching and indexing
> >library. It's available as a gem so try it out! To get started quickly
> >read the quick start at the project homepage;
> >
> >http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api
> >http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/files/TUTORIAL.html
> >
> >
> >
>
> Looks nice -- Have you tried running this with a web-bot to index websites?
>

Hi Alan,
Not personally but someone may have. Lucene has certainly be used like
this and Ferret would be well suited to the job. I'm certainly
interested to hear how people are using Ferret so let me know if you
do this.

Cheers,
Dave

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> Alan Garrison
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