Gaudi Mi wrote: > I've got Ferret up and running for a Rails application and I'd like to > be able to use autocomplete in my text search field so that as the user > is typing each character of the search term, the index is queried for > matching terms starting with those characters, and they are displayed in > a list under the search box, like Google Suggest. > > I have searched the Ferret API but I can't find a way to do for example: > > Show all words in index that start with 's', then 'sp', then 'spa', etc. > > Thanks for any assistance.
Is that what google does, though? I thought the autocomplete was being filled with previous matching searches. If that is the case then you might have to save all search queries to a db. Have you seen the jQuery autocomplete plugin? It's pretty good: http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
