Okay firstly the sponsored listings are what we call the paid for premier style of listing in our site. In the listings db table there are a few fields that describe the sponsored feature. Ferret is used to index one of them which is a boolean called sponsored which simple defines a listing as being sponsored. Ferret doesn't know (as far as I'm aware..) how to compare booleans so you need this declaration somewhere in your model. Which tells ferret how to handle boolean comparrisons.
def false.<=>(o) o ? -1 : 0 end def true.<=>(o) !o ? 1 : 0 end Then it's just a case of defining your sort fields and then using them in your ferret search like so. sort_fields = [] sort_fields << Ferret::Search::SortField.new(:sponsored, :reverse => :true) sort_fields << Ferret::Search::SortField::SCORE results = VoObject.find_by_contents(query,:sort =>sort_fields,:offset=>page,:limit => RESULTS_PER_PAGE) I'm a rank amateur when it comes to ruby/rails/ferret so please don't take this as the right/best way to do it, but it works for me. Hope this helps. Regards Caspar -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
