Jan, Thanks a lot...I saw a blog posting recommending the same thing after I posted... it works like a charm. I like it and far faster and confidence-inspiring than mysql LIKE.
For anyone else that sees this, the blog post I saw is: http://olivier.liquid-concept.ch/articles/2006/04/17/add-tags-in-a-ferret-index W Jan Prill wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > at least ferret will work perfectly well for you. > > Let your photo-model 'acts_as_ferret' and make acts_as_ferret index a > method > named eg 'all_tags' which returns a comma (or tab or whatever) seperated > string of your tags on this photo. Now you'll be able to constructs a > query > as described in the rdocs of the QueryParser of ferret that includes > your > tags and should be very performant. > > Cheers, > Jan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
