# Picolena OSX

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/picolena-osx/160473>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [February 16, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/picolena-osx/160473 "2009-02-16T20:37:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobinharris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@tobinharris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tobinharris)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/picolena-osx/160473/1 "2009-02-16T20:37:06Z")

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Hi folks

I’ve been trying for hours to get Picolena working on OSX 10.5, but no  
cigar. Picolena uses Ferret behind the scenes, but I get all sorts of  
errors, even when running with a single thread.

I was wondering if anyone could take a look? Shouldn’t take more than 5  
mins to install and see if it works for you.

# Install gem

sudo gem install picolena

#Â Generate a web site, indexing your documents folder  
picolena /Users/YourName/Documents

# Open browser

cd picolena  
script/server  
open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)

# Other useful commands

rake index:clear  
rake index:create

I’m in contact with the developer of Picolena, and he says it’s fine on  
Debian, but hasn’t tried OSX.

For more info and demo…

# Trunk

[http://picolena.devjavu.com/](http://picolena.devjavu.com/)

> **[GitHub - EricDuminil/picolena: a lightweight but powerful documents search...](https://github.com/EricDuminil/picolena/tree/master)**
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> master

Thanks

Tobin