> I see you've pushed this.  I'm going to try and write some tests for
> one of my projects using acts_as_xapian and then do an xapian_db
> branch and see how it compares with finding similar.  Thanks for
> putting in the time and work.

> On Aug 4, 11:01 pm, Gernot <gernot.kog...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hi

> > Thanks for your feedback. The "find similar" feature sounds cool, I
> > will implement it for 0.6

> > Support for delayed job instead of beanstalk would really be easy. If
> > you want to code it yourself, I will happily accept a pull request.
> > All it needs is a delayed_job_writer, a delayed_job_worker and a
> > daemon script template.

> > The community seems rather small, but the project is active; after
> > all, xapian_db is a core component for all of our own projects. And
> > some of them are quite late ones.

> > Best regards
> > Gernot

> > On Aug 5, 7:28 am, thoughtafter <thoughtaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I have a number of rails projects using xapian.  They are all using
> > > acts_as_xapian with a fair amount of customization at this point.  I
> > > wanted to find a more active project.  This seems to be the only one.
> > > I like the blueprint concept.  I had liked the xapian bindings being
> > > included but I see that's been pushed to xapian-ruby.

> > > One feature I would like to see is "find similar" functionality.  Acts
> > > As Xapian has that here:https://github.com/mnelson/acts_as_xapian_gem/blob/master/lib/acts_as...

> > > One nice feature is that the ActsAsXapian::Similar similar class has
> > > an accessor for import terms which I find very useful in at least one
> > > of my projects.  I've also hacked ActsAsXapian to allow for similar
> > > searches to be chained with faceted searches such as "find similar in
> > > this date range" or "find similar in this location".

> > > The only other thing I would change, and I might be willing to code
> > > this myself, is to use delayed_job instead of beanstalk for updating
> > > the db.  Looking through the xapian_db code I think that would
> > > probably be easy to implement

> > > Anyway just wanted to throw some ideas out there and see what the
> > > response would be.  This project is active but it doesn't seem like a
> > > large community.