Besides several small tweaks and fixes, this release introduces index versioning to the DRb server. Now everytime you call MyModel.rebuild_index, a new index is built in the background. During that process the original index is still in place, so ideally nobody will notice. Once the rebuild is done, acts_as_ferret will switch over and use the new index.

Disclaimer: until now any modifications done to model instances while the rebuild runs will go into the old index, so you’ll have to keep track of these yourself.

MySQL users with a large number of records might as well notice a speed increase with index rebuilds, thanks to this clever exploitation of several MySQL specifics.

Btw, if you’re looking for some capistrano recipes for managing your ferret server, have a look at the palmtree project.