# Acts\_as\_ferret and reindexing objects

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-ferret-and-reindexing-objects/107964>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 27, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-ferret-and-reindexing-objects/107964 "2007-06-27T22:00:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-ferret-and-reindexing-objects/107964/1 "2007-06-27T22:00:46Z")

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I’m having trouble with returning sorted data from acts\_as\_ferret.

Is there a way to explicitly ask ferret to re-index a specific object?  
Is re-indexing supposed to happen automatically after save, regardless  
of whether DB data has changed? If so, but what mechanism?