# AAF + DRb + Windows. Index works, search maybe? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ferret\ **Created:** [October 28, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aaf-drb-windows-index-works-search-maybe/151966 "2008-10-28T15:21:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chrisdwan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@chrisdwan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisdwan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aaf-drb-windows-index-works-search-maybe/151966/1 "2008-10-28T15:21:36Z")
Currently running the following setup: -Ferret 0.11.5 -Acts as Ferret plugin 0.4.3 Rev.257 -Rails 2.1.1 -Ruby 1.8.6 Patchlevel 111 -Windows 2003 Server This all works fine and dandy and after a lot of struggling with getting these specific versions together I managed to get it up and running on Windows. In all my models I have set the :remote =\> true option on the acts\_as\_ferret declaration so the DRb is used in production. The DRb runs fine and is defined in ferret\_server.yml Index directory is created in the project folder and the DRb seems to index nicely in there. The top of the log says: DRb server: ensure\_index\_exists for class Contest Asked for a remote server ? true, ENV[“FERRET\_USE\_LOCAL\_INDEX”] is nil, looks like we are the server Will use local index. using index in C:/websites/BRProject/index/production/contest 1.) Is this correct? Or should I set this FERRET\_USE\_LOCAL\_INDEX value? 2.) Then after indexing all my teams in the database I get these lines in my ferret\_server.log: Adding field name with value ‘BLAH TEAM NAME’ to index creating doc for class: Team, id: 4891 Adding field name with value ‘OTHER TEAM NAME’ to index reindex model Team : 191.58% complete : -8.05 secs to finish e[4;36;1mTeam Load (0.000000)e[0m e[0;1mSELECT \* FROM `teams` WHERE (id \> 4891) LIMIT 1000e[0m e[4;35;1mSQL (0.000000)e[0m e[0mCOMMITe[0m changing index dir to C:/websites/BRProject/index/production/team/20081025165554 index dir is now C:/websites/BRProject/index/production/team/20081025165554 #method\_missing(:find\_id\_by\_contents, [“Team”, “Othe~ OR Team~”, {:limit=\>4}]) #method\_missing(:find\_id\_by\_contents, [“Team”, “J~ OR P~ OR Custom~”, {:limit=\>4}]) #method\_missing(:find\_id\_by\_contents, [“Team”, “Munchin~ OR Hilto~”, {:limit=\>4}]) Followed by a similar ‘method\_missing’ line about 1000 times. One for each apparent search query entered on the website. I use the ‘find\_by\_contents’ function throughout my application where I split the query on non-word chars /[^\w]/ and join em with an OR and make all the terms fuzzy. Should I use a different call? Or what am I doing wrong here. 3.) I feel like I am abusing the query language for this purpose: Fuzzy finding team names. Often I type in a nearly exact match with the team and it wont show up. Especially team names with ‘.com’ in it for example. Or exact matches yield different team names with a higher hit rate. Also there is a problem with matching certain reserved words. Apparently querying the States DB with ‘IN’ for Indiana is not going to work 🙂 Is there any advice on how to better realize a fuzzy search engine? thanks for the support! ---
**Author:** ![chrisdwan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@chrisdwan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisdwan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aaf-drb-windows-index-works-search-maybe/151966/2 "2008-10-28T20:26:23Z")
Hi! Chris D. wrote: > Currently running the following setup: > -Ferret 0.11.5 > -Acts as Ferret plugin 0.4.3 Rev.257 > -Rails 2.1.1 > -Ruby 1.8.6 Patchlevel 111 > -Windows 2003 Server > > This all works fine and dandy and after a lot of struggling with getting > these specific versions together I managed to get it up and running on > Windows. In all my models I have set the :remote =\> true option on the > acts\_as\_ferret declaration so the DRb is used in production. > The DRb runs fine and is defined in ferret\_server.yml my congrat ulations 🙂 > Index directory is created in the project folder and the DRb seems to > index nicely in there. The top of the log says: > > DRb server: ensure\_index\_exists for class Contest > Asked for a remote server ? true, ENV[“FERRET\_USE\_LOCAL\_INDEX”] is nil, > looks like we are the server > Will use local index. > using index in C:/websites/BRProject/index/production/contest > > 1.) Is this correct? Or should I set this FERRET\_USE\_LOCAL\_INDEX value? no, just ignore that possibly misleading message. As long as the server is self-aware enough to know it’s the server, and the application does not think it’s the server, everything is ok 🙂 > 2.) Then after indexing all my teams in the database I get these lines > in my ferret\_server.log: > > Adding field name with value ‘BLAH TEAM NAME’ to index > creating doc for class: Team, id: 4891 > Adding field name with value ‘OTHER TEAM NAME’ to index > reindex model Team : 191.58% complete : -8.05 secs to finish > e[4;36;1mTeam Load (0.000000)e[0m e[0;1mSELECT \* FROM `teams` WHERE > (id \> 4891) LIMIT 1000e[0m > e[4;35;1mSQL (0.000000)e[0m e[0mCOMMITe[0m > changing index dir to > C:/websites/BRProject/index/production/team/20081025165554 > index dir is now > C:/websites/BRProject/index/production/team/20081025165554 > #method\_missing(:find\_id\_by\_contents, [“Team”, “Othe~ OR Team~”, > {:limit=\>4}]) > #method\_missing(:find\_id\_by\_contents, [“Team”, “J~ OR P~ OR Custom~”, > {:limit=\>4}]) > #method\_missing(:find\_id\_by\_contents, [“Team”, “Munchin~ OR Hilto~”, > {:limit=\>4}]) > > Followed by a similar ‘method\_missing’ line about 1000 times. One for > each apparent search query entered on the website. Everything is ok, aaf is just a bit noisy 🙂 you might want to raise the log level for your DRb server to get rid of these (at some point in time I introduced a configuration option for ferret\_server.yml, not sure if you already have it or not in your version), or just comment out the relevant line of code that spams the log this way… > 3.) I feel like I am abusing the query language for this purpose: Fuzzy > finding team names. Often I type in a nearly exact match with the team > and it wont show up. Especially team names with ‘.com’ in it for > example. Or exact matches yield different team names with a higher hit > rate. I often find myself doing the same. I go even further - I build different query variants from the query string the user entered, with a varying degree of exactness (i.e. exact phrase match, match with wildcards, fuzzy match), and OR them together with different boosts. this way more relevant matches are likely to be on top of the result list because their sub query receives a higher boost, but you also find matches further away from the original query in case the user had a typo or so… > Also there is a problem with matching certain reserved words. > Apparently querying the States DB with ‘IN’ for Indiana is not going to > work 🙂 lowercase ‘in’ should work (in case you also index lowercase ‘in’, of course), imho the reserved words are uppercase only. Or don’t use the build in query parser but construct your own query objects (which however might not work with DRb if you build them in your application) Cheers, Jens