# Installing Ferret + acts\_as\_ferret on Windows Vista **URL:** \ **Category:** Ferret\ **Created:** [May 17, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ferret-acts-as-ferret-on-windows-vista/137893 "2008-05-17T20:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/egorbrandt)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ferret-acts-as-ferret-on-windows-vista/137893/1 "2008-05-17T20:40:46Z")
Hello to you all, I’m on Vista, with Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.0.2. Trying to have the search engine working in my railsproject has lead to problems 1. first, I did \> gem install ferret Successfully installed ferret-0.9.6 1 gem installed 2. secondly, I installed acts\_as\_ferret via script/plugin 3. when i run the WEBrick server, however, I get this error message: /ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’: no such file to load – ferret\_ext (MissingSou rceFile) Have you any idea what I’m doing wrong? I’d love to hear that from you. Thanks in advance egorbrandt ---
**Author:** ![egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/egorbrandt)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ferret-acts-as-ferret-on-windows-vista/137893/2 "2008-06-12T03:05:05Z")
Hi, I’m running ferret on Vista also, but I’m at version 0.11.5 - maybe your problem is because of an older gem? try doing a “gem install ferret -v 0.11.5” at the command prompt also, acts\_as\_ferret is also available as a gem, maybe try that instead of plugin if the above doesn’t work ---
**Author:** ![egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/egorbrandt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ferret-acts-as-ferret-on-windows-vista/137893/3 "2008-06-13T10:23:16Z")
Adam Hill wrote: > Hi, > > I’m running ferret on Vista also, but I’m at version 0.11.5 - maybe your > problem is because of an older gem? > > try doing a “gem install ferret -v 0.11.5” at the command prompt > > also, acts\_as\_ferret is also available as a gem, maybe try that instead > of plugin if the above doesn’t work thanks for your suggestion, Adam! ---
**Author:** ![egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/egorbrandt)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ferret-acts-as-ferret-on-windows-vista/137893/4 "2008-07-21T18:20:22Z")
Hi, I’ve got a similiar situation as the creator of this thread. I’m Windows XP and have Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.1.0. Earlier when I had Rails 2.0.2, there were no problems with the environment. Afert updgrading the environment WEBrick doesn’t start anymore and gives me “no such file to load – ferret\_ext” error. I’ve tried installing acts\_as\_ferret as gem and plugin - both without a successful result. Updating ferret to the latest version 0.11.5 didn’t help either. When I run a ferret test, I get message that “ferret works”. – ferret\_test.rb – require ‘rubygems’ require ‘ferret’ include Ferret puts “ferret works!” I’ve searched already elsewhere, but didn’t find any working solutions yet. Anyone has ideas, what could be the reason? ---
**Author:** ![egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/egorbrandt)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ferret-acts-as-ferret-on-windows-vista/137893/5 "2008-12-01T23:18:31Z")
Egorbrandt Egorbrandt wrote: > problem solved, for those poor Windows users like me: > > 1. gem install ferret -v=0.11.5 --platform mswin32 > 2. gem install acts\_as\_ferret > 3. add “require ‘acts\_as\_ferret’” in config/environment.rb > 4. from C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ferret-0.11.5-x86-mswin32\ext > copy/paste ferret\_ext.so to > C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ferret-0.11.5-x86-mswin32\lib > > it works! (for me, and for now…) Thanks a bunch from some other poor Windows user, worked just fine for me on WinXP. Jens ---
**Author:** ![egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@egorbrandt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/egorbrandt)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ferret-acts-as-ferret-on-windows-vista/137893/6 "2008-09-19T10:57:20Z")
Egorbrandt Egorbrandt wrote: > Hello to you all, > > I’m on Vista, with Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.0.2. Trying to have the search > engine working in my railsproject has lead to problems > > 1. first, I did \> gem install ferret > Successfully installed ferret-0.9.6 > 1 gem installed > > 2. secondly, I installed acts\_as\_ferret via script/plugin > > 3. when i run the WEBrick server, however, I get this error message: > /ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in > `gem\_original\_require’: no such file to load – ferret\_ext (MissingSou > rceFile) > > Have you any idea what I’m doing wrong? I’d love to hear that from you. > > Thanks in advance > > egorbrandt problem solved, for those poor Windows users like me: 1. gem install ferret -v=0.11.5 --platform mswin32 2. gem install acts\_as\_ferret 3. add “require ‘acts\_as\_ferret’” in config/environment.rb 4. from C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ferret-0.11.5-x86-mswin32\ext copy/paste ferret\_ext.so to C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ferret-0.11.5-x86-mswin32\lib it works! (for me, and for now…)