# Beta Ruby bindings for Xapian available **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 24, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beta-ruby-bindings-for-xapian-available/58676 "2006-04-24T19:23:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/plambert)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beta-ruby-bindings-for-xapian-available/58676/1 "2006-04-24T19:23:22Z")
Dear Ruby-talk, I am pleased to announce that beta-quality Ruby bindings for Xapian are now available. Xapian is a powerful open source full text search engine written in C++ ([http://www.xapian.org/](http://www.xapian.org/)). The latest version of the Ruby bindings is available by anonymous SVN from [https://nks-svn-001.nks.net/xapian-bindings/](https://nks-svn-001.nks.net/xapian-bindings/) . Some preliminary general usage notes are in ruby/README.txt. The bindings pass all unit tests (ruby/smoketest.rb), and there are some simple examples in the ruby/examples/ subdirectory to demonstrate their usage. Remember, although these bindings seem to be working well so far, they have not yet been extensively tested under real-world production conditions, and so should be considered beta quality at best. There may still be some unknown nasty bugs lurking in the code. Use them at your own risk! 🙂 I will be actively working on testing and further improving these bindings over the next few weeks. I welcome any suggestions, comments, testing feedback, or (especially) code patches. ## Best, Paul * * * ## – Paul L., Senior Software Engineer – — Networked Knowledge Systems — ---- P.O. Box 20772 Tampa, FL. 33622-0772 ---- ----- (813)594-0064 Voice (813)594-0045 FAX ----- ------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ------ ---
**Author:** ![plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/plambert)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beta-ruby-bindings-for-xapian-available/58676/2 "2006-04-24T19:32:36Z")
On 4/24/06, Paul L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Dear Ruby-talk, > > I am pleased to announce that beta-quality Ruby bindings for Xapian are > now available. Xapian is a powerful open source full text search engine > written in C++ ([http://www.xapian.org/](http://www.xapian.org/)). Sounds cool! [more info elided] > I will be actively working on testing and further improving these > bindings over the next few weeks. I welcome any suggestions, comments, > testing feedback, or (especially) code patches. Have you considered setting up a project on RubyForge? Or, barring that, setting up a mailing list, public bug tracking, etc. > * * * > > * * * > > ## ----- This email bound by the following: ----- ---- [E-Mail Disclaimer](http://www.nks.net/email_disclaimer.html) ---- – thanks, -pate ---
**Author:** ![plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/plambert)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beta-ruby-bindings-for-xapian-available/58676/3 "2006-04-24T19:51:20Z")
pat eyler wrote: > Have you considered setting up a project on RubyForge? Or, barring > that, setting up a mailing list, public bug tracking, etc. Hmm… Actually, I’m hoping to roll the Ruby bindings back into the main Xapian tree soon. Then, we can use the xapian-devel mailing list, and Xapian’s existing bug tracking system. I will ask the Xapian maintainers how they feel about when this should happen. If they don’t want to integrate it until it’s production worthy (a perfectly understandable position), I will set up an interim rubyforge project. Best, Paul – * * * ## – Paul L., Senior Software Engineer – — Networked Knowledge Systems — ---- P.O. Box 20772 Tampa, FL. 33622-0772 ---- ----- (813)594-0064 Voice (813)594-0045 FAX ----- ------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ------ ---
**Author:** ![plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/plambert)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beta-ruby-bindings-for-xapian-available/58676/4 "2006-04-25T14:21:41Z")
Paul L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > Hmm… Actually, I’m hoping to roll the Ruby bindings back into the main > Xapian tree soon. Then, we can use the xapian-devel mailing list, and > Xapian’s existing bug tracking system. I will ask the Xapian maintainers > how they feel about when this should happen. If you’re done with the initial development work, I’m happy to integrate them. We have a list of requirements for new bindings (a version of the “smoketest”, documentation, examples but you’ve already met those anyway). If you’re still making major changes, it’s probably better to hold off since we like to keep the SVN version in a releasable state as much as possible. But I gather that’s no longer the case. > If they don’t want to > integrate it until it’s production worthy (a perfectly understandable > position), I will set up an interim rubyforge project. The changes are sufficiently self-contained to not break the other languages, so I think it’s reasonable to integrate them but flag them as “new” or “beta” or something like that. Shipping them with the other bindings will hopefully get more people to try them than having a separate download would and that’s what’s needed to shake out any problems. So just let me know when you’re ready. Cheers, Olly (Xapian Developer) ---
**Author:** ![plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/plambert)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beta-ruby-bindings-for-xapian-available/58676/5 "2006-04-25T18:05:05Z")
Olly Betts wrote: > So just let me know when you’re ready. Olly, I don’t see any major changes coming. There are a few unimplemented features (like MatchDecider), but all of the core functionality is there, so we can go ahead and roll the Ruby code into the main Xapian-bindings package. Best, Paul – * * * ## – Paul L., Senior Software Engineer – — Networked Knowledge Systems — ---- P.O. Box 20772 Tampa, FL. 33622-0772 ---- ----- (813)594-0064 Voice (813)594-0045 FAX ----- ------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ------ ---
**Author:** ![plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@plambert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/plambert)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beta-ruby-bindings-for-xapian-available/58676/6 "2006-05-03T18:56:23Z")
On 2006-04-25, Paul L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > […] go ahead and roll the Ruby code into the main Xapian-bindings package. OK, they’re now in. If you’re interested in testing, you can find bootstrapped snapshots from SVN here: [http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/trunk/](http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/trunk/) They’ll be in the next release, but it would be good to get wider testing to shake out any problems before then. It’s best to use the Xapian mailing lists and bug-tracker for feedback: [http://www.xapian.org/lists.php](http://www.xapian.org/lists.php) [http://www.xapian.org/bugs.php](http://www.xapian.org/bugs.php) Cheers, Olly