> I'm not a Real Programmer[TM] and don't have an idea about how you call
> C++ from Ruby (I can't use gcc without explicit instructions, so
> README.EXT is quite a hard read for me). It seems that you have to
> write some kind of 'wrapper'.
> 
> Or does that amount to 'porting Lucene to Ruby' already?

There's a Ruby/Lucene project by Erik Hatcher, but it seems to be
stalled, no releases so far, only available thorough cvs at:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubylucene

Maybe you should mail Erik and ask him if he's still interested for
team-up or you to take over.
It'd be nice to have a tool like this.

Swigging and writing an extension for something like this should be
IMHO the second step after having a good understanding of how the
thing works under the hood, especially if you claim not to be an
experienced programmer.

Anything, but please, No py-thing, please ;-)

cheers,
           


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