Stop words and /'s

Ruby Apps Ferret
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Hi new version of ferret and acts as ferret have sorted out the scary
glibc *** linked list pointer errors, thank god! New version are good
but some searches are still not working. It is mostly the stop words
ones. For example the “For Sale/Free/Swap” fails but works when “for” is
stripped out. I have read all the recent posts regarding this issue and
failed to get it to work in a clean way. I tried:

acts_as_ferret :fields=> [‘short_description’,‘section’], :analyzer =>
Ferret::Analysis::StandardAnalyzer.new([])

and rebuilt my index but same behavior as before. There seems to have
been alot of effort put into tracking down a solution to this problem so
has one been found that i’m missing? I’m using ferret 0.10.1 and
bleeding edge acts_as_ferret (is this the only version that works with
ferret 0.10.1?).
Also a search for “Film/Theatre” fails while lots of other serahces with
/'s in them succeed, is there a reason why this might be happening ?

Jens: thank you very much for the previous reply.

regards
Caspar

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On 8/28/06, Caspar [email protected] wrote:

and rebuilt my index but same behavior as before. There seems to have
been alot of effort put into tracking down a solution to this problem so
has one been found that i’m missing? I’m using ferret 0.10.1 and
bleeding edge acts_as_ferret (is this the only version that works with
ferret 0.10.1?).
Also a search for “Film/Theatre” fails while lots of other serahces with
/'s in them succeed, is there a reason why this might be happening ?

Hi Caspar,

I’m not sure what you are trying to do with the “Film/Theatre” search.
If you are trying to Film or Theatre you should search for
“Film|Theatre”. Also, could you please give an example of a search
that doesn’t work including the data that is entered. For example;

irb(main):001:0> require ‘rubygems’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require ‘ferret’
=> false
irb(main):003:0> include Ferret
=> Object
irb(main):004:0> i = I.new
=> #<Ferret::Index::Index:0xb7b8d76c @default_field=:,
@auto_flush=false, @open=true, @options={:default_field=>:,
:dir=>#Ferret::Store::RAMDirectory:0xb7b8d654,
:analyzer=>#Ferret::Analysis::Analyzer:0xb7b8d17c}, @mon_owner=nil,
@id_field=:id, @reader=nil, @mon_waiting_queue=[],
@analyzer=#Ferret::Analysis::Analyzer:0xb7b8d17c,
@default_input_field=:id,
@dir=#Ferret::Store::RAMDirectory:0xb7b8d654,
@mon_entering_queue=[], @qp=nil, @writer=nil, @mon_count=0>
irb(main):005:0> i << “For Free”
=> nil
irb(main):006:0> i << “For Sale”
=> nil
irb(main):007:0> i << “For Swap”
=> nil
irb(main):008:0> i.search(‘“For Free|Sale|Swap”’)
=> #<struct Ferret::Search::TopDocs total_hits=3, hits=[#, #, #],
max_score=4.21639537811279>

Cheers,
Dave