On 4/14/06, Stuart Rackham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Balmain wrote: > > Hi Stuart, > > > > Just curious. What do you use those methods for? I didn't bother > > including them because I didn't think anyone would need them. It > > seemed simpler just to have the one method that returned the data as a > > string. I hope I can help. > > The #string_value is used in the Rails HowToIntegrateFerretWithRails > demo application on the Rails Wiki > http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToIntegrateFerretWithRails > > It is used in the ./app/views/search/get_results.rhtml template for > example: > > <strong><a href="<%= result.field('url').string_value %>"> > > I don't know Lucene well enough to know wether there's an alternative > way of doing the the same thing.
All add the string_value method for backwards compatibility but you can just use the data method instead. > I've not come across any usage of the other two methods. > > Apologies for the time taken to reply, I've only just spotted your > reply. No worries, I took even longer to reply. > Cheers, Stuart > > > > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
