Indexing the local file system

Ruby Apps Ferret
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Hi, all:
I am new to Ferret, can anyone please tell me what do I do to index
some text files in a local directory?

Thanks

Victor

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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Huang, Zijian(Victor) wrote:

Hi, all:
I am new to Ferret, can anyone please tell me what do I do to index
some text files in a local directory?

I got started with the book (not to hand) and modifying some code, which
I then put here:
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/#ff.rb

Hopefully that will do most of what you want.

Thanks

Victor

    Hugh
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Hi!

On 19.03.2009, at 19:12, Huang, Zijian(Victor) wrote:

Hi, all:
I am new to Ferret, can anyone please tell me what do I do to
index some text files in a local directory?

Have a look at either RDig (rdig.rubyforge.org) or the FerretFinder
project (http://www.methods.co.nz/ff/) - each of these projects do
what you want (and are open source).

Or, even better, get the Ferret Book (available as PDF or in Print
from O’Reilly) for a complete reference including many examples (afair
there’s also an example that deals with indexing files).

Basically it boils down to

  • create new ferret index
  • for each file:
    • get textual content (involves conversion from pdf, word or
      whatever file format to plain text)
    • create ferret document with textual content and filename
    • add ferret document to ferret index
  • close ferret index

Cheers,
Jens

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Great!
Thanks for the helps

Vic