David Balmain wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Can you show me some more code? How are you creating the index? > Perhaps you are setting :create => true in which case it will > overwrite the old index. > > Dave Oops. I am indeed using :create => true. I forgot that I set it because create_if_missing did not work. I removed it, but now there is a different problem. When I change the index while the indexing script is running, it quits, but with another error message: 316 317 318 RuntimeError: docs out of order curent doc = 9 and previous doc = 17 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/segment_merger.rb:276:in `append_postings' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/segment_merger.rb:262:in `append_postings' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/segment_merger.rb:240:in `merge_term_info' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/segment_merger.rb:215:in `merge_term_infos' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/segment_merger.rb:176:in `merge_terms' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/segment_merger.rb:48:in `merge' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/index_writer.rb:403:in `merge_segments' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/index_writer.rb:371:in `maybe_merge_segments' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/index_writer.rb:161:in `add_document' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:229:in `synchronize' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/index_writer.rb:159:in `add_document' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/index.rb:270:in `<<' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:229:in `synchronize' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.3.2/lib/ferret/index/index.rb:238:in `<<' from ./app/models/search_ferret.rb:38:in `update' from (irb):1 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.