I’m building an application that will supplant an existing application
that’s up and running right now. I want to use Ferret (coupled with
Acts As Ferret) for searching, but I’m a bit bamboozled about a few
things. I was hoping for some advice.
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With Acts As Ferret, is it possible to restrict searches to children
of an instance? For instance, suppose you have a database with a
hundred schools, and each school had many students. I might want to
search school “A”'s students, and only those students. -
What’s the best way to build an index for the existing database? Is
it best for me to use a crawler like RDig, or should I just load data
and then build the index manually using something like a Rake task? -
Is it wise to prune the Ferret index now and then?
Thank you.
James H.