Hello everybody, and welcome to my talk about Rails full text search with the Ferret library. At first, I'd like to thank the people from O'Reilly for giving me the opportunity to speak here today. To introduce myself, my name is Jens Krämer, and I'm working at webit!, an IT consulting firm located in the beautiful city of Dresden here in Germany. I've split my talk in two parts. At first, I'll give you a brief overview over the Ferret full text search library. In the second part, I'll show you how to easily integrate Ferret with your Rails application with the help of the acts_as_ferret Rails plugin, which was initially created by Kasper Weibel, and which I'm the maintainer of since early 2006.