# Search engine

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-engine/123379>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 17, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-engine/123379 "2007-12-17T07:48:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![seena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@seena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seena)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-engine/123379/1 "2007-12-17T07:48:56Z")

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hi, am facing a problem with installing a search engine n wud need some  
help,

trying to install acts\_as\_solr “script/plugin install  
svn://svn.railsfreaks.com/projects/acts\_as\_solr/trunk”

for this as the requirement is stated on the site, i have downloaded  
both  
=\>Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 1.5 aka 5.0  
=\>Apache‘s Solr  
but wen i am giving the above path in the command prompt as in

c:\>:ruby\myrails\cookbook\> ruby script\plugin install  
svn:\svn.railsfreaks.com\projects\acts\_as\_solr\trunk ----am not getting  
anything

without the ruby as the prefix to script it gives a message “script is  
not recognized as an internal or external command”

but even with this path am not able to install acts\_as\_solr…

the same problem am facing with acts\_as\_ferret…  
plz cud anybody tell me wat i am missing…which i am  
sure is the case…

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**Author:** ![seena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@seena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seena)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 8:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-engine/123379/2 "2007-12-17T08:05:00Z")

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On Dec 16, 10:48 pm, Seena N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> ## but wen i am giving the above path in the command prompt as in the same problem am facing with acts\_as\_ferret… plz cud anybody tell me wat i am missing…which i am sure is the case…
> 
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

installing ferret and a\_a\_ferret by gem has been pretty reliable for  
me (OS X and linux). What o/s are you on?

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**Author:** ![seena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@seena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seena)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-engine/123379/3 "2007-12-17T08:27:23Z")

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gene tani wrote:

> On Dec 16, 10:48 pm, Seena N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
> wrote:
> 
> > > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> 
> installing ferret and a\_a\_ferret by gem has been pretty reliable for  
> me (OS X and linux). What o/s are you on?

“am working on XP,  
i tried this as per the information given on  
site–[http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org/](http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org/)”