[Xapian-discuss] Ruby Gem?

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2007-11-14 17:03:59 -0500, Mike Boone wrote:
> Has anyone made a Ruby Gem package of Xapian? I recently built a Ruby
> on Rails project and was able to drop in the Ferret Gem (a port of
> Lucene) and the acts_as_ferret Gem, and searching was easily handled
> in my Rails application. But I've been working with Xapian in PHP for
> a few years now, and I'd love to use it in my Rails application. It
> might be nice to get some more Ruby attention for Xapian along the
> way.
> 
> Has anyone tried to package Xapian as a Ruby Gem yet? I don't want to
> reinvent the wheel, but if nobody has yet, it might be fun to try and
> useful to others.

1. it doesnt have to be a gem to be usable within rails.
   plain old way of installing ruby extensions works well.
2. someone would need to write a acts_as_xapian to get the same
   integration with the rails framework

you are looking more for part 2 right?

    darix

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