Developing Web Applications

With Helma, i am using the Java Lucene to implement fulltext search. In the Ruby world there is Ferret. It's nearly the same as Lucene - great!
Acts as Ferret integrates it in RoR.

For the quickest introduction:

• a perfect slideshow
• best tutorial for acts_as_ferret
• another tutorial for acts on ferret
• introduction ferret in general

To include german stemming do this.

Some troubleshooting if this doesn't work.

This configuration worked for me:
acts_as_ferret(
{ :fields => {
:fieldname1 =>{},
:fieldname2 =>{}
}
},
:analyzer => GermanStemmingAnalyzer.new
)

To get informations about the current index for a Model:

>> puts [Modelname].aaf_index.to_yaml
or
>> puts [Modelname].aaf_configuration.to_yaml

It seems that some guys working at Google are using their 20% time for doing a ROR clone on Rhino. I would be interested if they know about the granddaddy of Rhino based web development framework Helma. Yeah, yeah ... in my dreams Google is pushing Rhino up the hill towards Javascript 2.0.

The Helma guys really did a good job with this collection of modules. I am using the form, l18n and rss2.0 module as well as the hopobject extension at the moment. It's all very well documented and together with the db prototyping functionality of rocket, it's a breeze to create the basic input/output and modelling.