(Somewhat off topic) Re: [Rails] Announcement: Indexed Search Engine 0.1.2 Available

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I haven't tried either of the Ruby-based index/search engines, but after 
a bunch of testing, including big names like Lucene and Swish-e, I found 
one that works well for me. I have a collection of something like 500 
megabytes of PDF files (including the Pickaxe book and AWDWR :) ).

I've settled on Namazu. It's fully-configured out of the box for 
handling PDFs and Word documents. IIRC it's mostly in Perl, so it could 
probably be ported to Ruby fairly easily. And it can handle Japanese; 
that was the author's original motivation for writing it, I think -- a 
lack of usable Japanese-language search engines.

Lance Ball wrote:

>On 1/3/06, Roberto Saccon <rsaccon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>How does it compare to ferret ? Just from the README it seems to be much
>>easier to setup and to use than ferret, but not as fast. If anybody has
>>experience with both, would be interesting to hear.
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>Ferret is almost certainly faster.  I believe IndexedSearchEngine is
>easier to use, however.
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>I wrote it because I was doing a quick demo app for work and I didn't
>want to deal with setting up and learning Ferret.  I too would be
>interested in hearing about others' experience with both.
>
>Lance
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