Update each record in order to update Ferret index?

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Hi,

I’m having some problems on a particular acts_as_ferret model.
Rebuilding the index with Model.rebuild_index does not seem to work. No
results are returned after indexing. However,
when I update each record manually, the index seems to be correct.

This is my model:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

…
acts_as_articlequerybuilder
acts_as_messageuser :Article,:title,:body,:excerpt
acts_as_ferret :fields => [ :active_title,:active_excerpt,:joined_tags
], :remote => true

…

end

The fields specified are custom methods, defined in acts_as_messageuser.
Maby this is causing some troubles with ferret :

    #active_title  => returns title field in current active language
    define_method('active_'+param.to_s) do
       value = read_attribute(param.to_s)
       language = $activelanguage.code.to_sym
       if value
         Message.find(value).send(language)
       else
         nil
       end
    end

Can somebody point me in the right direction? Oh, I’m using
ferret_server in production mode. Ferret works fine on the model in
development mode without ferret_server

Thanks

2

no real help for your actual problem.

But we moved an existing project from ferret to sphinx,
for exactly the reasons you mention. Everything working
fine in dev, but fails in prod.
If you google around a bit, you’ll find that this seems a common
problem with ferret.

I would recommend moving to sphinx. Depending on amount of
models that use ferret, this shouldn’t take more than a day or two.

3

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Maarten P. <
[email protected]> wrote:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

        nil
      end
   end

Can somebody point me in the right direction? Oh, I’m using
ferret_server in production mode. Ferret works fine on the model in
development mode without ferret_server

Hi, could you tell us about the actual configuration of ferret? How’s
Ferret
working in development mode without the ferret_server? Is the
ferret_server
up and operational in the production environment?

-Conrad

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Hi, could you tell us about the actual configuration of ferret? How’s
Ferret
working in development mode without the ferret_server? Is the
ferret_server
up and operational in the production environment?

-Conrad

Hi Conrad,

In development mode, I’m just using the local index without any ferret
server. In production mode, the ferret server is definitely doing it’s
job. Most models using ferret, are simple models with straightforward
fields. However, the article model is a bit more complex and doesn’t
index unless I update each record manually.

here is my server config:

development:
host: localhost
port: 9015
pid_file: log/ferret.pid
log_file: log/ferret_server.log

Hmm … If I can’t fix it, I have two options:

  • Iterate trough all articles and update manually once in a while
  • try out to Sphinx
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Maarten P. wrote:

acts_as_articlequerybuilder
development mode without ferret_server
Give this a go:

class Article
acts_as_ferret :fields => […]
cattr_accessor :ferret_server
self.ferret_server = ActsAsFerret.remote? ? aaf_index : self
end

Article.ferret_server.rebuild_index

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