Is ruby on rails plugin, acts_as_ferret, very buggy?

Yes, Ferret has been very well known for corrupting indexes.

Yes, Ferret has been very well known for corrupting indexes. I recommend switching over to another searching plugin like Thinking Sphinx. You can watch the Railscast about it in order to learn more.

Agreed - avoid AAF. There are better options out there: ThinkingSphinx and even Solr if you need everything that Lucene provides – Patrick Reagan Dec 2 '09 at 17:46.

I think the problem might be that "the" is defined as a stopword- an extremely common word that is not indexed because it would just return every document. You can configure your stopword list. I would consider using Solr if you are having problems with Ferret.

Ended up with TS but thanks for the insight! – Tony Dec 2 '09 at 22:00.

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