opensoul.org - Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret Comments

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Terri

2008-09-05T07:11:31Z

Hi Brandon,

I’m running Rails 2.1.

I was able to get this to work by adding the :locals parameter to the render partial statement so it reads:

<%= render :partial => “shared/search_results_#{dom_class(result)}”, :locals => {:”#{dom_class(result)}” => result } %>

Thanks again for the tutorial.

Terri

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Brandon

2008-09-04T00:55:42Z

Terri,

That’s odd. Are you doing something different from the render code above?

You might want to try updating your version of Rails. I don’t remember exactly which version fixed it, but Rails used to only look at the first model in an array to figure out which partial to use. Update to the next version (2.0 if you’re on 1.2 or 2.1 if you’re on 2.0) and it should work.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Terri

2008-08-29T09:13:34Z

hello,

Thanks for the tutorial. It works fine, except when I try to render the partial.

I have two models, Reviews and Comments.

If my search term finds only Reviews, it successfully renders the results in the review_results partial.

If my search term finds only Comments, it correctly renders the results in the comment_results partial.

But if my search term finds both Reviews and Comments, it tries to render Reviews in the comment_results partial and Comments in the review_results partial, which fails because the two tables have different fields.

Have you encountered this? Are you able to get two models to display in their respective partial views correctly? Any ideas as to why it’s not working for me?

Thanks,

Terri

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Brandon

2008-07-11T12:10:43Z

mikeg,

I’m not sure that it’s possible using the shared index, but you can simply define another index that has just those two models.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by mikeg

2008-07-06T21:07:30Z

how do I search only Person, Company with the shared index? with: ActsAsFerret::find(“test”,[Person,Company]) it seems still returns all the result from Person , Company , Post

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Sebastian

2008-05-14T18:39:26Z

Usefull post!

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Damon

2008-05-13T14:08:46Z

Brandon, thanks for the post and letting us work through it in your comments. P jam, could you post your code over at Rails Forum ?

Apologize for the delay…was away over the weekend.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by p jam

2008-05-13T01:40:48Z

day two friend.

your demo works fantastic.

i tried all of the same code, but added my models instead. One of which is a Post with title and body….

anyways, the only difference in the two apps is you use Postgres and i use mysql.

Also, i’ve got my search input form inside of my layouts file. could that have something to do with it???? I’ve got no other answers. i’m tapped out, starting to cry. this is the last piece i need before i conquer the world with my new app!!!!!

i doubt that could be it, could it? the ferret forum is being of no help… would hoped by now that someone would have picked it up, i.e., answer my plea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by p jam

2008-05-13T01:39:38Z

day two friend.

your demo works fantastic.

i tried all of the same code, but added my models instead. One of which is a Post with title and body….

anyways, the only difference in the two apps is you use Postgres and i use mysql.

i doubt that could be it, could it? the ferret forum is being of no help… would hoped by now that someone would have picked it up, i.e., answer my plea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by p jam

2008-05-12T03:13:31Z

Appreciate the demo. will look tomorrow. it worked for me.

I’m wondering, if in the mean time, would myself using MySQL have any impact on why it hasn’t worked for me thus far?

the demo works like a champ, and i’m hoping it will help me fix my issues :-)

thanks and i’ll report back to my favourite forum…err… blog. cheers.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Brandon

2008-05-12T02:36:55Z

I’ve put together an example rails app that uses the shared index. It uses sqlite and has some date pre-populated. Start up script/server and do a search for “John”.

I’ve also removed parts of the post that may have led to confusion. Hope that helps.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Funeral

2008-05-11T21:45:17Z

Very nice code, I am not quite clear about passing these parameters, but it make some sense for me.

Thanks, Eddie Funeral

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by p jam

2008-05-09T14:39:18Z

Hi Brandon,

Is it possible to display your views, and search fields please?

When i pass params[:q], all i get is the name in which i typed.

Somehow, params[:q] doesn’t work it’s way through the ‘shared’ index? it must be how i’m passing the search term.

Perhaps you could do another post just devoted to the little bits, like the views and search forms, that were skipped in this post. Much appreciated, and keep up the good work.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by p jam

2008-05-08T20:13:13Z

i don’t know where my last comment post went… but, i was saying, if we can talk about this on railsforum, it may be a better spot for us.

You’re the only dude i know with a similar issue, hope you don’t mind.

http://www.railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=18060

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Damon

2008-05-08T17:42:47Z

The view is where things get ugly for me.

<%= render :partial => @results %>

Doesn’t look for other partials based on the model name (e.g., activities/_activity partial if the model is Activity), so I threw something together that’s very ugly in a _result partial:

<%= link_to_if(result.instance_of?(Activity), result.name, activity_path(result)){ link_to result.name, organization_path(result) } %>. . . .

I am sure there is a better way to do this but I don’t know how. However, once I know what object I’m dealing with, I access it normally.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by p jam

2008-05-08T14:46:31Z

the blog post that became a forum…. i bet if we help each other, this posting will go down as the posting that changed searching with ferret forever. First, thanks damon. for some reason it’s working now. i got rid of all reference to aaf in my app and started with a new trunk plugin. so far so good. at least my server starts now.

So what do you use in your view then?

i keep getting blank views.

here is my searches/index.html.erb

<h1>Search Results</h1>
<%= params.inspect %>
<% @results.each do |result| %>
  <%= render :partial => "searches/#{dom_class(result)}" %>
<% end %>

and let’s say i have a _user.html.erb partial for the user’s name i want to search. here is the corresponding partial

<%= link_to result.login, root_url %>

What am i doing wrong? What does yours look like? THIS is the part that is screwing with my head. p.s., i just wanted something to show up when i searched, hence the lame partial. i’ll pimp it up when i get it working.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Damon

2008-05-08T03:11:10Z

Sorry, half asleep here…

To answer your question, I am not using

config.after_initialize....

anywhere. Once I restarted my ferret server, everything worked fine. If you’re not using a ferret server, you might want to look at reloading your index files (but I’m just guessing).

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Damon

2008-05-08T03:08:44Z

I have the latest aaf and didn’t need to do anything to my environment.rb.

Once I made the changes, I did restart ferret_server.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by p jam

2008-05-08T00:36:06Z

It’s actually the

config.after_initialize....

that i am having the trouble with.

Where did you put that? did you put that in your environment.rb? and if so, where?

i get a message saying that load_config cannot be found. load_config is part of the plugin… but for some reason it can’t be found when initializing.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Damon

2008-05-07T22:27:44Z

(try again) P jam, all the code after

config.after_initialize....

needs to be in your controller(s) / view(s).

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Damon

2008-05-07T22:25:54Z

P jam, all the code after

config.after_initialize....<pre>
needs to be in your controller(s) / view(s).

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by P jam

2008-05-07T20:25:27Z

also, branden, in the paragraph where you say to skip the patch , your tutorial/post goes right to more code.

Was your intent for ‘us’ to skip that bit of code too? it kind of just appears and then you say… now for the fun part.

1000 thank you’s if you get this working for me boss.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by P jam

2008-05-07T20:12:23Z

you’ve gotten farther then I damon and brandon.

i get

undefined method `load_config' for ActsAsFerret:Module (NoMethodError)

when i reload the server. I did get the same message as Damon however, when i tried this yesterday without restarting the server. i never should have restarted my server.

I’m thinking that something in trunk is borked, right now.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Damon

2008-05-07T18:28:49Z

Hi, I’m following your pattern but having problems with rendering. I have my models mapped as resources but when I call

<%= render :partial => @results %>

I get an exception, “couldn’t find template array/_arrays”

Instead of a SearchResults object, I appear to be getting a plain array returned. Any ideas?

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by ynw

2008-04-30T00:38:35Z

I have to report stability issues with Ferret. Sphinx is serving well and exposes some advanced features Ferret is lacking.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Derek

2008-04-29T23:44:55Z

Are you using Ferret on any production apps? If so, how has it been? I considered Ferret a few months ago, but went for Sphinx when a lot of people were saying Ferret isn’t as stable.

Comment on 'Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret' by Ed Spencer

2008-04-29T17:18:04Z

That’s fantastic, thanks for the writeup. Last time I look at Ferret it felt a bit contorted – this looks great though!

Any ideas about memory usage? I seem to remember it using a lot last time I used it…