Using "local" search

[moredruid]

Hi
I'm wondering, the HDA setup pages have a search button called "HDA" and "web", but both seem to only give me niceurl results, and no real hits.

I expected this to work this way: the hda search button searches your HDA, and the web button searches the web (kind of like a google box).

am I missing a package that I should have had installed?
I'd gladly install Lucene if necessary for the local search.

[cpg]

do you know lucene?

this was hooked to locate and lucene was attempted, however, it broke when we upgraded to a new version of rails and we put some "rigged" hits to not show a broken page, but we never got around to fix it

if you are interested in helping, that would be a very welcome contribution.
attach yourself to bug #24 and let's work on it.

http://bugs.amahi.org/issues/show/24

the code is in http://git.amahi.org/?p=amahi.git;a=blo ... 19;hb=HEAD

however, i am happy to help with that part if you have some experience with lucene!

[moredruid]

hmm not sure how to attach a comment to the git etc.

first of: I'm not a coder at all (actually I'm a sysadmin - which means I can take existing code, modify it up to a point that it's still working but nobody understands how or why it can still work )

I did a quick google and ferret seems to be nice (ruby lucene drop in replacement that is faster(!) than lucene).
I tried a gem install of ferret but that didn't work right, never worked with gem so I'm not sure why it failed except for this error:

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ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

aaaaanyway, I'd love to help testing and things like that but I don't think I can be of any help if you want stable code

[cpg]

no worries. getting the logistics is a good portion of the work. see, i did not know about ferret. it does look interesting!

this worked for me to install ferret (gem is just like rpms, CPAN, etc.):

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bash$ sudo gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc ferret Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed ferret-0.11.6 1 gem installed bash$

the options are optional and are only for not installing docs, etc.

if you do know the logistics of lucene, that is worth a look!
a simple text interface is ok.

[moredruid]

nope, still the same error

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[root@butler ~]# gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc ferret Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing ferret: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install --no-ri --no-rdoc ferret creating Makefile make gcc -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux -I. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Wall -fPIC -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c bitvector.c make: gcc: Command not found make: *** [bitvector.o] Error 127 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.6 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.6/ext/gem_make.out

hmm gcc should be installed on this system (vanilla F9)... aha! gcc not installed... weird but true (is gcc not a default package?), but nothing a yum install gcc can't fix... and 2 minutes later 1gem installed

OK... so that's what I have now... I've never played with ruby and all that kind of stuff but I should be able to find something on the web...
If I cobble something up that works I'll take a look how to "integrate" it with the hda interface (i.e. link the .css and have it look uniform with the rest).
Most of the stuff should go into /var/hda/platform right?