Installing ferret and acts_as_ferret

Question

I'm looking for a solid walkthrough or some direction on getting ferret set up on my rails server. Everyone on the internet makes it seem so easy, but I can't seem to get it all together.

What I've done succesfully:

gem install ferret
gem install acts_as_ferret

No sweat. No errors.

What doesn't work:

Video.find_by_content('test')
-----No Method Error

or ActsAsFerret.find('test', 'my_index')

I get console to recognize the constant "ActsAsFerret"(only when I install the plugin from https://github.com/jkraemer/acts_as_ferret), but find() returns a No Method Error. Update: Installing the plugin like this also prevents Mongrel from starting

I AM running in development mode, but configured ferret_server.yml to know what's up.

So does any one have any suggestions? And has anyone had more luck using acts_as_ferret as a gem or as a plugin? Googling gets me small scraps and parts of tutorials that don't seem to fit together, so I hereby vow to blog a solution to this when I figure it out.

ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i486-linux]

rails (3.0.3)

P.S. I also ran

sudo apt-get install ferret

on someone's suggestion... still no luck. I'm not even sure if that'd be a reasonable solution for deploying.

Answer 1

have you added

gem 'ferret'
gem 'acts_as_ferret'

in your Gemfile and run

bundle install

?

Answer 2

you can use find_with_ferret method