# Acts\_as\_ferret: using an index outside of the application

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-ferret-using-an-index-outside-of-the-application/129717>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 20, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-ferret-using-an-index-outside-of-the-application/129717 "2008-02-20T23:17:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-ferret-using-an-index-outside-of-the-application/129717/1 "2008-02-20T23:17:41Z")

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Hello,

Does anyone who has worked with acts\_as\_ferret know how to point the  
search to an index outside of the application?

I’ve tried changing the environment.rb:  
module FerretConfig  
include Ferret

INDEX = Index::Index.new(:path =\> ‘/my\_other\_applications\_index/  
index/’)

end

“Asked for a remote server ? true, ENV[“FERRET\_USE\_LOCAL\_INDEX”] is  
nil, looks like we are not the server  
Will use local index.”

Many Thanks