Paginator prob

rubyonrails-talk
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i am trying to implement the pagination solution for ferret provided at the following link: http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial#what

i am getting the following error: uninitialized constant ApplicationController::Paginator

here is the call to paginator:   pages = Paginator.new self, size, options[:per_page], (params[:page]|| 1)

i echoed all of the inputs and they are not nil. i am not sure where the errror is coming from.

i thought it was bc i did not have paginayor gem but i installed it and i stil am getting the same error

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I don't see, why you want to use this Paginator thing (whatever exactly it is) Ferret doesn't need it for pagination, you can give it the per_page & page options and that's all to it.

btw: Sphinx would most likely do a better job. Ferret is nice, until you try to make it run in production.

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That code looks like it's trying to use the old classic_pagination code (which was pushed into a plugin of the same name)

Fred

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veering off topic… what does “Ferret is nice, until you try to make it run in production.” mean exactly? i’ve seen mention that ferret has problems in production but i don’t understand what other use you’d want it for. just to develop an idea but never put into production?

agreed on sphinx being a better solution though. my recommendation would be thinking sphinx.

RSL

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exactly the point. you develop an idea, want to run it in production and have a hell of a time. I've used ferret only in two projects. Project one was very simple and we had no problems. The other project was a bit more complex, no problems in development, but when we put it in production, the index update failed totally, missing to add things to the index, even after full reindexing the whole dataset. We didn't give it too much time though, so such issues may be solvable. But to switch the whole thing to sphinx was a matter of a day or two (with no previous knowledge of Sphinx) and it worked in production as in development right away. Ok, a bit more work to setup everything, but since then running (several months now) without the least trouble.

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hmmmm....

so, do more people use sphinx for full text search?

i was just more comfortable using a lucence ruby port since lucene is so well known

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here is useful discussion on the issue: https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment/browse_thread/thread/980fe7cb20cb97dd/bc798b52f439020c