We have an application that uses Ferret and acts_as_ferret that we
just upgraded to Ferret 0.10.5 (from 0.9.5) and the corresponding
version of the acts_as_ferret. Everything works as expected on my
laptop, which is running mongrel 0.3.13.3. When I deploy the
application on our server, which is running some version of Red Hat
Linux, I can’t get Ferret to work at all when running under mongrel
(again, version 0.3.13.3). Oddly, everything works fine if I open a
console and rebuild the index or run a search.
When I access the site via the web and try to modify a document
that triggers indexing, I get the following error:
A NoMethodError occurred in questions#update_faq:
undefined method new' for Ferret::Document:Module [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/instance_methods.rb: 110:into_doc’
When I try to run a search, I get no results at all even though the
documents are indexed. (I can run searches fine from the Rails console.)
Anyone ever seen anything like this? I have no idea what it is
about the ferret/mongrel/Linux combination that’s causing these
problems.
–Rafe