On Dec 27, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Benjamin Krause wrote:
acts_as_ferret is storing one index per model. That is why you need
the multi_search method. However, Ferret does not need to store
separate indexes per model. acts_as_ferret is using a so-called
MultiSearcher, see
http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Search/MultiSearcher.html
to access several indexes at once to search them all. So yes, you
can use Ferrets own MultiSearcher to access all indexes you need
at once. However, acts_as_ferret may change the way the index is
stored in the future, so if you mix acts_as_ferret and 'standard'
ferret
API calls, you might have a problem with future versions of AAF.
Thanks Benjamin for your response.
So if you don't have a specific reason to use your own MultiSearcher,
you shouldn't do it :-) What do you want to achieve?
If I am using ferret/AAF to index Car, Boat, and Train, and I want to
perform a search on all those objects and get mixed results from all
of them simultaneously, the only way I know of to achieve this is to
pick one of the models -- say, Car -- and invoke Car.multi_search,
with appropriate flags to specify searching all models. This works
fine but is a bit sloppy since the method could have been called on
any of the models. I was wondering if there is an official or
unofficial way to avoid this.
Cheers,
John
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