# Ferret Usability

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-usability/173912>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [August 18, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-usability/173912 "2009-08-18T05:42:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yeung\_William](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@Yeung\_William](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yeung_William)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-usability/173912/1 "2009-08-18T05:42:25Z")

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Guys,

I am new to Ferret- I have mixed feeling about this thing. On one side  
I really like the simplicity of the system- its easy to deploy and  
used, and I have a lot of choices on integration from aaf or doing my  
own isn’t too hard too. On the other hand, I heard a lot of horrible  
stories from index corruption to segfaults. The most classical thread  
I can find is here:

[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment/browse\_thread/thread/980fe7cb20cb97dd](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment/browse_thread/thread/980fe7cb20cb97dd)

Even Ezra@EY is basically saying Ferret is unusable. May I know how’s  
the situation now? Anyone can nail down what actually had happened on  
their segfaults/index corruption?