[Xapian-discuss] Ruby Gem?

[James Aylett]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:03:59PM -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.

I'm not aware of it, but I'm starting to use Rails at work so I'd be
interested in the idea. I don't have experience making gems, so I'm
not sure how much help I could be (plus, as always, I'm terrifyingly
busy). But I can at the least provide moral support, and perhaps at
some point a user or two. (I might be able to persuade our development
team to play with Xapian in future; they're using Ferret at the moment
because it's so easy to drop in.)

J

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