I am new to ferret and am just reading about it in the O'reilly shortcuts as well as other web resources. My app is a Rails app and so I am looking into acts_as_ferret as well. There are some questions for which I couldn't find answers in the material I have read so far so I'd appreciate any help on these from the list.
A bit of a background. My app will have 10,000 - 50,000 documents. These are 'owned' by users and the groups they belong to (like a file system). So the queries will have to be restricted to those documents owned by the groups the user belongs to. I have a group_id in each record and the session has the group_id's of the groups the user belongs to in an array. Question 1: If I add acts_as_ferret :fields => [:group_id, :document_text] can I do an activerecord search like... Document.find(:all, :conditions => ['group_id in (?)', session[:group_ids]) ? Question 2: These documents are dynamic, so they are deleted, updated, edited etc. How do I handle indexing in these circumstances? Delete all and recreate -or- is there a way to just delete an index by document_id and recreate it just for that document. I am going to try this in the app but before I took the plunge I thought I'd ask first. -tia, bakki PS: the app will be used by separate client companies, so on one server we will host the app in multiple virtual hosts(separate rails app instance for each). Can I share a drb for all clients or do I need one per client. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
