# Ferret 0.10.7 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-0-10-7-released/69806>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 24, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-0-10-7-released/69806 "2006-09-24T06:54:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-0-10-7-released/69806/1 "2006-09-24T06:54:45Z")

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Hey folks,

\*\* Description \*\*

Firstly for those who don’t know, Ferret is a full-text search library  
which makes adding search to your application a breeze. It’s much  
faster than MySQL full-text search as well most other search libraries  
out there. It allows you to do Boolean (+ruby + rails -jewelry) and  
phrase queries (“the quick brown fox”) as well as some more unusual  
queries like fuzzy queries (misspelling~ matches mispeling or  
misspellng), wildcard queries (Aus?ral\*), range queries  
(date:\<=20050601) and a lot more. Ferret also now offers query result  
highlighting and excerpting.

\*\* Announcement \*\*

I’ve just released Ferret 0.10.7. It is still in beta but we are  
getting closer and closer to a 1.0 release. The main changes in this  
release are better handling of fields by the QueryParser. You can now  
give the QueryParser a list of fields that are tokenized so that only  
those fields will be analyzed in the QueryParser. This means that you  
can search untokenized fields for terms with spaces in them. For  
example:

```
results = index.search('title:Shawshank\ Redemption')

```

If :title is an untokenized field, this query will be parsed as a  
single TermQuery. Previously the search would have failed.

I’ve also changed the StandardTokenizer behaviour so that it will  
handle email addresses that start with numbers. This also means that  
200km will be parsed as a single term instead of seperate terms.  
Whether this is a good thing or not is a matter of taste. You can  
easily use a filter to split these terms up if you need to.

There are a lot of other bug fixes as well so Ferret should be a  
little more stable.

Happy Ferreting,  
Dave

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**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-0-10-7-released/69806/2 "2006-09-24T17:23:57Z")

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Awesome!!!