Thanks Shane, that helps alot, and thanks for contributing the
adapter. It's making Sphinx integration a breeze :-)

I'm right in the middle of doing search integration for an app now so
hopefully I'll find a way to contribute something back.


Cheers,
Rolly

On Feb 12, 1:36 am, Shane Hanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey I'm the author of dm-sphinx-adapter.
>
> At the moment you can:
>
> 1) Full text search all fields in the index(es) without attribute
> conditions using a raw query:
> Item.search(:conditions => [%q{search for me}], default_options_hash)
>
> 2) Full text search one or more fields or attributes in the index(es)
> with optional :default conditions:
> Item.search(:field_blah => 'value', :attribute_blah => 'value',
> default_options_hash)
>
> See the query tests and DM::A::Sphinx::Query documentation for more
> examples of whats possible.
>
> I'd like to be able to express a search across all fields *and* supply
> optional attribute conditions (which sounds like what you are asking
> for) but I can't see a nice way hook extra logic in before DM's query
> construction and validation which happens in shared code in
> Model#scoped_query.
>
> I hope the syntax talk that's been going on will allow non DOAs more
> flexibility perhaps by passing query conditions through an adapter
> hook for query construction? In the meantime I'm open to suggestions,
> patches and will freely hand out commit privileges if you can't
> possibly wait for me to merge your pull requests :)
>
> Cheers,
> Shane.
>
> On Feb 11, 7:45 am, Rolly <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I've been playing around with dm-sphinx-adapter and dm-is-searchable
> > and I was wondering if there's anyway to do full-text queries like:
> >   Item.search('keywords', options_hash)
>
> > Instead of:
> >   Item.search(attribute_keywords_hash, options_hash)
>
> > I guess the first one could just use the same keywords against every
> > searchable attribute, but combine them using OR rather than AND.
>
> > I've haven't figured whether this is possible yet, has anyone managed
> > something like this with dm-sphinx-adapter?
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