[ANN] Ferret 0.1.0 (Port of Java Lucene) released

[David Balmain]

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one correction:
RegExpTokenizer should be RETokenizer
(at least in the version you've released publicly)

Doh, I meant to change that for the email. Anyway, in case you're
interested, I also fixed the problem with the query parser so that it shoul=
d
also parse UTF-8 queries. That'll be out in the next release.

Dave

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[peter.r.bailey]

I have to say that the combination of Ruby, Eclipse, and Ferret have
just blown me away today. I've gone from knowing that Ruby existed (for
several years in fact), to thinking that I should check it out over the
last couple of months, to reading some of the doc yesterday, to having
a complete running installation of Ruby (through the One Click Windows
installer), with Eclipse layered on top, and Ferret installed and
operational - at least for this test example - in the space of 4 hours!

Really looking forward to the UTF-8 support too - some Google searching
on Ruby and UTF-8 led me to Ferret in the first place. Looks like an
absolutely great platform to do experiments in information retrieval
with - which is just what I need.

Well done and many thanks!

Peter

 

[David Balmain]

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Hi Peter,

Welcome aboard. With all the people who are coming to ruby because of rails=
,
it's great to hear my project has helped to convert someone. I hope you
enjoy it here.

Cheers,
Dave

I have to say that the combination of Ruby, Eclipse, and Ferret have
just blown me away today. I've gone from knowing that Ruby existed (for
several years in fact), to thinking that I should check it out over the
last couple of months, to reading some of the doc yesterday, to having
a complete running installation of Ruby (through the One Click Windows
installer), with Eclipse layered on top, and Ferret installed and
operational - at least for this test example - in the space of 4 hours!

Really looking forward to the UTF-8 support too - some Google searching
on Ruby and UTF-8 led me to Ferret in the first place. Looks like an
absolutely great platform to do experiments in information retrieval
with - which is just what I need.

Well done and many thanks!

Peter

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