On 7/12/06, BlueJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Balmain wrote: > > On 7/11/06, BlueJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > "fishing/fiction"))) > >> > Now you just need to run your search the same way. Something like this; > >> > > >> Thanks very much for this and I can wait a week for this to be released. > >> <snip> > > > > Great. A word or warning though, it's all new code and you'll be > > riding on the bleeding edge. But hopefully it will stabalize quickly. > > I'm working on this full time at the moment (when I'm not answering > > emails ;-)). > > > > Cheers, > > Dave > > Dave > > One last thought on this... because this will be new code.... originally > I was going to write the count as a client side piece of code to count > the documents in each category. I realised that I would have to return > the full result set in order to do this which would cause problems with > performance. > > If I were to write this as a server side script, outside of ferret, I > believe that I could achieve the same result as in your example. Can > you think of any gotchas that would make this a stupid idea?
If you mean grab the whole result set and loop through every result taking a running count then yes, this should work fine. I'd say my example would be a lot faster but you never know without trying it. Dave _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
