On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Allen Young wrote: > Jens Kraemer wrote: > > You should try to use ferret instead of your DB as much as possible. > > > How can I use search a decimal type attribute using ferret? For example, > I want all materials whose description contains "ruby" and resistance is > between 0.1 and 0.5? I have a lot of decimal and integer type attributes > which I don't know how to index with ferret. Any advice about this?
Use untokenized fields for such values, and normalize them to a fixed length before indexing. I'd also normalize the decimals to integers. Regarding your incremental queries, the QueryFilter class might be useful: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Search/QueryFilter.html Jens -- Jens Krämer webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH Schnorrstraße 76 | 01069 Dresden Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.webit.de Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422 GF Sven Haubold, Hagen Malessa _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
