Ferret Articles:
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LUCENE IN RUBY - this is big pay attention
Derek Sivers of CD Baby fame writes about ferret. http://oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8168
jkraemer.net
Jens Kraemer, is a maintainer of acts_as_ferret. At http://www.jkraemer.net/ he is blogging about ferret and intersting projects like RDig a website crawler based on ferret. You might have a look at the project page of RDig and give it a try for your intranet search... Articles tagged with ferret.
ferret slides
the slides of a recent talk a the RoR UG in Berlin Ferret Talk
Ferret slides from the Columbus Ruby Brigade (CRB) http://www.columbusrb.com presentation by Brian Sam-Bodden http://www.integrallis.com/downloads/ferret.pdf
Weibelmedia
Kasper Weibel is another maintainer of acts_as_ferret. Read his articles tagged with acts_as_ferret.
"search" on jots
Jots is a collaborative bookmarking system that collects interesting articles about search in general and is focussing on ferret as well. A great start for an overview about search, ferret and other search options.
tourb.us
The blog of tourb.us. There's an article about ferret and location based searches. Maybe there is more to come...
Miettes
Olivier Amblet writes about rails and ferret on his blog. Especially using tags with ferret - in other words combining acts_as_taggable and acts_as_ferret on models might be of interest.
Montezuma begins
http://lemonodor.com/archives/001361.html : Porting of lucene (and ferret) seems to be a lot of fun and a great exercise. Montezuma is a Common Lisp port of ferret (and therefore lucene).
