This is a slightly modified version of some Japanese fellow’s documention on how to install Hyper Estraier on Mac OS X

First we need libiconv:

   1  $ cd /usr/local/src
   2  $ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.11.tar.gz
   3  $ tar zxvf libiconv-1.11.tar.gz
   4  $ cd libiconv-1.11
   5  $ ./configure
   6  $ make
   7  $ sudo make install

zlib:

   1  $ cd /usr/local/src
   2  $ wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
   3  $ tar zxvf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
   4  $ ./configure
   5  $ make
   6  $ sudo make install

QDBM :

   1  $ cd /usr/local/src
   2  $ wget http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/qdbm-1.8.74.tar.gz
   3  $ tar zxvf qdbm-1.8.74.tar.gz
   4  $ cd qdbm-1.8.74
   5  $ ./configure --enable-zlib
   6  $ make mac
   7  $ make check-mac
   8  $ sudo make install-mac

Hyper Estraier

   1  $ cd /usr/local/src
   2  $ wget http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/hyperestraier-1.4.9.tar.gz
   3  $ tar zxvf hyperestraier-1.4.9.tar.gz
   4  $ cd hyperestraier-1.4.9
   5  $ ./configure
   6  $ make mac
   7  $ make check-mac
   8  $ sudo make install-mac

Finally we’ll install the pure ruby bindings:

   1  $ cd rubypure
   2  $ ./configure
   3  $ make
   4  $ sudo make install

To verify that Hyper Estraier is installed and working, try one of the examples in the examples folder, or follow these instructions:

First create and start a P2P node:

   1  estmaster init casket
   2  estmaster start casket

Open http://localhost:1978/master_ui in your browser and create a node called dictionary.

Then run this code which adds a record to the index:

   1  require "estraierpure"
   2  include EstraierPure
   3  
   4  node = Node::new
   5  node.set_url("http://localhost:1978/node/dictionary")
   6  node.set_auth("admin", "admin")
   7  
   8  doc = Document::new
   9  # @uri : the location of a document which any document should have.
  10  doc.add_attr("@uri", "This is the URL, required?")
  11  # @title : the title used as a headline in the search result.
  12  doc.add_attr("@title", "This is the title, required?")
  13  doc.add_text("Text goes here")
  14  
  15  result = node.put_doc(doc)
  16  unless result
  17    printf("error: %s\n", node.status)
  18  end

Next we’ll perform a query which returns the object we just added:

   1  require "estraierpure"
   2  include EstraierPure
   3  
   4  # create and configure the node connecton object
   5  node = Node::new
   6  node.set_url("http://localhost:1978/node/dictionary")
   7  
   8  # create a search condition object
   9  cond = Condition::new
  10  
  11  # set the search phrase to the search condition object
  12  cond.set_phrase("Text goes here")
  13  
  14  # get the result of search
  15  nres = node.search(cond, 0);
  16  if nres
  17    # for each document in the result
  18    for i in 0...nres.doc_num
  19      # get a result document object
  20      rdoc = nres.get_doc(i)
  21      # display attributes
  22      value = rdoc.attr("@uri")
  23      printf("URI: %s\n", value) if value
  24      value = rdoc.attr("@title")
  25      printf("Title: %s\n", value) if value
  26      # display the snippet text */
  27      printf("%s", rdoc.snippet)
  28    end
  29  else
  30    STDERR.printf("error: %d\n", node.status)
  31  end

The query language is documented here.

If you’re indexing ActiveRecord objects use acts_as_searchable:

   1  gem install acts_as_searchable

To submit your sitemap to search engines—at least Google, MSN and Yahoo support this feature—add this line to your robots.txt file:

   1  Sitemap: http://aktagon.com/sitemap.xml

This allows the search engine to find your sitemap when it visits your site, which means you don’t have to manually register it with each search engine.

Helpful when you need to find a class or package in some jar file recursively below the current directory. Still needs a test to see if the file found was a file or directory. Works case insensitively. Uses the unzip command because of it’s performance superiority in comparison to jar.

   1  #!/bin/sh
   2  for f in `find . -type f -name '*\.jar'`
   3  do
   4          unzip -l $f | grep -i $1 && echo "was found in $f"
   5  done