I see! Thanks a lot! It's actually a lot easier than I thought :-) On Apr 23, 1:59 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gedeon > > You can't delve into associated objects for excerpts directly - but the > excerpts object just looks at methods, not columns, so just create a method > that pulls all the association data together, and call that via excerpts > instead. > > def wb_content_body > writeboards.collect(&:writeboard_contents).flatten.collect(&:body).join(' > ') > end > > # ... > > project.excerpts.wb_content_body > > Cheers > > -- > Pat > > On 20/04/2010, at 2:10 PM, Gedeon wrote: > > > > > Hello Pat (and all Thinking Sphinx experts), > > > Sorry to bother you again. I hope this problem will be easy to solve! > > The context is still the same as in my previous thread: Searching > > projects. > > > Projects are linked to several kinds of associated objects. > > One of these are "writeboards" (which can be considered as some kind > > of wiki) and each writeboard can have several "writeboard_contents" > > which are the different versions of the wiki. > > > So: > > A project has many writeboards > > A writeboard has many writeboard_contents > > > My ThinkingSphinx index definition contains: > > indexes writeboards.writeboard_contents.body, :as => :wb_content_body > > > Now, if I search for "blueberry" and that word appears the 'wiki' of > > project called "pie recipes", how can i let the user know why TS > > retrieves "Pie recipes"? > > I would like to use excerpts to display that info, but I cannot seem > > to get it to work. > > The example I found onhttp://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/excerpts.html > > only shows excerpts within the searched class (i.e.: > > article.excerpts.body ) but I cannot see any example of excerpts in > > associated objects (i.e.: article.excerpts.author.biography) > > > I tried several possibilities, but none of them worked: > > project.excerpts.wb_content_body : > > undefined method `wb_content_body' for #<Project:0x9737504> > > > project.excerpts.writeboards.writeboard_contents.body > > undefined method `writeboard_contents' for "#<Writeboard: > > 0x9705888>":String > > > Is something like this possible? > > How can I do it? > > > Thanks a lot for your help! > > Best regards, > > > Gedeon > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Thinking Sphinx" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thinking Sphinx" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en.
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