On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:50:32PM -0500, John Bachir wrote: [..] > > [1] If I'm reading the code correctly, it seems that single-model > searches will behave the same as before, and AAF/Ferret will add the > extra column to the query for me. Is this correct?
yep. > [2] How can I take advantage of the single-index when doing multi- > model searches? Through which model will I perform the query? Or do I > need to do this with raw Ferret queries and not through AAF? there's a secret option called :models to find_by_contents, which you can use to specify any additional models you want to search in. I just committed a fix adding that piece of documentation, and a fix to set the ferret_score attribute on results when using single_index. > [3] Are there other advantages or gotchas that I'm missing? generally the whole single_index thing seems to be less commonly used and therefore is less tested in the wild. Also with single_index each object in a result set is fetched with a single call to find, which clearly is not acceptable if a search returns a serious amount of results. Patches welcome ;-) I'd normally suggest using the multi-index search feature as an alternative to single_index (it's possible to search across multiple indexes at once with the multi_search method), but unfortunately this yields segfaults with recent Ferret versions (i think >= 0.10.10). cheers, Jens -- webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH www.webit.de Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur Jens Krämer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schnorrstraße 76 Tel +49 351 46766 0 D-01069 Dresden Fax +49 351 46766 66 _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
