# Integrating Rdig and acts\_as\_ferret **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 1, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-rdig-and-acts-as-ferret/84160 "2007-02-01T22:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bira)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-rdig-and-acts-as-ferret/84160/1 "2007-02-01T22:30:17Z")
Hello to the nice people of ruby-talk :). I have a question that involves Rails, but I believe it has enough “pure Ruby” in it to be worth asking here. If I’m wrong about that, please say so. Is it possible to use both Rdig and acts\_as\_ferret to build and search the same index? I got them to write to the same index, but a search with Rdig’s API for something that was added by the other indexer returns a bunch of empty results. My guess is the other indexer isn’t writting the correct fields to the index. Does anyone have any idea of how to integrate the two? I Googled around for an answer to this, in addition to doing my own investigations, but I couldn’t find anything. ---
**Author:** ![Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bira](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bira)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-rdig-and-acts-as-ferret/84160/2 "2007-02-02T12:06:18Z")
On 2/1/07, Bira [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is it possible to use both Rdig and acts\_as\_ferret to build and search > the same index? Answerring my own question, I managed to get them to work together by making two separate searches on the background, one on each index, and presenting them to the user as if it was a single unified search.