From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2008-11-03T21:23:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to open a Lucene-built index with Ferret...

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, John Pritchard-williams wrote:
> And ignoring the Lucene/Ferret thing for the moment - the 'search.rb' 
> program above seems to write over the index directory in any case (if I 
> run it twice , I get new mod times on the 'segments' files at least).

I have not explicitly checked for this behaviour with the ff.rb
I modified (without touching that bit), but certainly the index is not
rebuilt, that would take ages.
http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/ff.rb
http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/ferret_helper.rb
See 
http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/#ff.rb
for a bit of blurb about what I did.  
You might like to experiment with that to see if its behaviour is useful.

[For those reading the archive: that machine is doomed to die, and the
URL will change.  I'd like to keep this stuff on the web somewhere, but
I'm not sure how that will work out]

        Hugh