On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:24:27PM +0900, David Balmain wrote: > On 9/8/06, Maxime Curioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Dave, > > Sorry for responding so late. I am actually using Ferret via the > > acts_as_ferret Rails plugin. > > > > I have a problem with small words, especially when I search for them > > between quotes. For example, I have indexed the following sentence: > > "e-commerce growth strategy for a major business to leverage key > > intangible assets" > > > > When I search for the sentence '"for a"' (not just 'for AND a' but the > > sentence "for a"), I don't get any results. > > Hi Maxime, > It's not the length of the words that is the problem. If you did a > search for "cat" it would find it. The problem is that the default > analyzer which you are using removes common stop-words like "and", > "the", "a" and "for". You can create a StandardAnalyzer that doesn't > remove stopwords like this; > > include Ferret::Index > include Ferret::Analysis > > index = Index.new(:analyzer => StandardAnalyzer.new([]))
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