On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:30:12AM +0200, Chase DuBois wrote:
> Is there any way to set a field name that is different than the method
> name used to populate it?
>
> My example:
>
> In Rails, I'm using acts_as_ferret on a Article model that has_many
> Authors. I want to be able to index authors' names with each article.
> Since @article.authors yields an array of Author objects (and not an
> indexable string), I've created this method in my Article model:
>
> def authors_aaf
> @authors.collect {|a| a.name }.to_sentence
> end
>
> I call it "authors_aaf" because "authors" would cause a conflict. But I
> want my field name to be "authors", because that makes the most sense.
> (Users shouldn't have to type "authors_aaf:Joe" to search by author.)
>
> Any idea how this can/should be done?
You could pass the query through a de-aliasing helper method - something
that does query.gsub!(/authors:/, 'authors_aaf:') - before handing off the
query string to ferret.
-Chris
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