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Ferret

By David Balmain
March 2008
Pages: 110
ISBN 10: 0-596-51940-0 | ISBN 13: 9780596519407
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With Ferret, Ruby users have one of the fastest and most flexible search libraries available, and this book shows you how to quickly get up and running. You'll learn how to index different document types such as PDF, Microsoft Word, and HTML, as well as how to deal with foreign languages and different character encodings. Ferret describes the Ferret Query Language in detail along with the object-oriented approach to building queries.
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With the introduction of Ferret, Ruby users now have one of the fastest and most flexible search libraries available. And it's surprisingly easy to use.

This book will show you how to quickly get up and running with Ferret. You'll learn how to index different document types such as PDF, Microsoft Word, and HTML, as well as how to deal with foreign languages and different character encodings. Ferret describes the Ferret Query Language in detail along with the object-oriented approach to building queries.

You will also be introduced to sorting, filtering, and highlighting your search results, with an explanation of exactly how you need to set up your index to perform these tasks. You will also learn how to optimize a Ferret index for lightning fast indexing and split-second query results.


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"The book gives an extremely clear and well laid out overview of installing and using the Ferret library, along with some very useful appendices on how to extend your indices to cover multiple document types. The book is certainly informative and, given that is is written by the creator of the Ferret library, exhaustive."
-- Neil Davis, Amazon.co.uk


"There is an enormous amount of information on the Web about Ruby, but hardly anything about Ferret: a beginner-level programmer like me could never get along without a book like this."
-- Michael Pastore, ePublishers Weekly



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