Ruby Forum Ferret > installing Ferret + acts_as_ferret on Windows Vista

Hello to you all,

I'm on Vista, with Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.0.2. Trying to have the search
engine working in my railsproject has lead to problems

1) first, I did > gem install ferret
  Successfully installed ferret-0.9.6
  1 gem installed

2) secondly, I installed acts_as_ferret via script/plugin

3) when i run the WEBrick server, however, I get this error message:
  /ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- ferret_ext (MissingSou
rceFile)

Have you any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'd love to hear that from you.

Thanks in advance

egorbrandt

Hi,

I'm running ferret on Vista also, but I'm at version 0.11.5 - maybe your 
problem is because of an older gem?

try doing a "gem install ferret -v 0.11.5" at the command prompt

also, acts_as_ferret is also available as a gem, maybe try that instead 
of plugin if the above doesn't work

Adam Hill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running ferret on Vista also, but I'm at version 0.11.5 - maybe your 
> problem is because of an older gem?
> 
> try doing a "gem install ferret -v 0.11.5" at the command prompt
> 
> also, acts_as_ferret is also available as a gem, maybe try that instead 
> of plugin if the above doesn't work

thanks for your suggestion, Adam!

Hi,

I've got a similiar situation as the creator of this thread. I'm Windows 
XP and have Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.1.0. Earlier when I had Rails 2.0.2, 
there were no problems with the environment. Afert updgrading the 
environment WEBrick doesn't start anymore and gives me "no such file to 
load -- ferret_ext" error.

I've tried installing acts_as_ferret as gem and plugin - both without a 
successful result. Updating ferret to the latest version 0.11.5 didn't 
help either. When I run a ferret test, I get message that "ferret 
works".

-- ferret_test.rb --
require 'rubygems'
require 'ferret'
include Ferret
puts "ferret works!"

I've searched already elsewhere, but didn't find any working solutions 
yet.
Anyone has ideas, what could be the reason?

Egorbrandt Egorbrandt wrote:
> Hello to you all,
> 
> I'm on Vista, with Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.0.2. Trying to have the search
> engine working in my railsproject has lead to problems
> 
> 1) first, I did > gem install ferret
>   Successfully installed ferret-0.9.6
>   1 gem installed
> 
> 2) secondly, I installed acts_as_ferret via script/plugin
> 
> 3) when i run the WEBrick server, however, I get this error message:
>   /ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- ferret_ext (MissingSou
> rceFile)
> 
> Have you any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'd love to hear that from you.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> egorbrandt

problem solved, for those poor Windows users like me:
1) gem install ferret -v=0.11.5 --platform mswin32
2) gem install acts_as_ferret
3) add "require 'acts_as_ferret'" in config/environment.rb
4) from C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ferret-0.11.5-x86-mswin32\ext 
copy/paste ferret_ext.so to 
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ferret-0.11.5-x86-mswin32\lib

it works! (for me, and for now...)