From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2008-11-03T07:20:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to open a Lucene-built index with Ferret...

As far as i know, Ferret-built indexes are not binary-compatible with  
Lucene anymore.

To find out the version, open a console and type:

gem list ferret

the highest version behind the ferret gem is the one in use.

Regards,
Florian Gilcher

On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:03 PM, John Pritchard-williams wrote:

> But its wipes out the existing index and creates a new empty one - the
> pages for Ferret are currently unavailable - just wondering anybody  
> else
> has come across this? Is the 'create=>false' just not working or do I
> have it wrong here ?  ( I have also tried : create=>'false' - still  
> the
> same thing).
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
> How do I get the version of Ferret I'm using by the way - I would have
> posted that here if I knew how !
>
> -- Search.rb --
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'ferret'
>
> index=Ferret::I.new(:path => 'index', :create=>false);
> index.search_each('thane') do |doc,score|
>        puts doc, score
> end
> index.close
> -- end
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