The Cookbook provides thematic documentation covering some of Apache Lucy's more sophisticated features. For a step-by-step introduction to Lucy, see .
- While index updates are fast on average, worst-case update performance may be significantly slower. To make index updates consistently quick, we must manually intervene to control the process of index segment consolidation.
- Explore Lucy's support for custom query types by creating a “PrefixQuery” class to handle trailing wildcards.
- Define your own custom search query syntax using and Parse::RecDescent.
Some of the recipes in the Cookbook reference the completed application. These materials can be found in the sample directory at the root of the Lucy distribution:
sample/indexer.pl # indexing app sample/search.cgi # search app sample/us_constitution # corpus