On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:08:37AM +0200, Jeff Cabaniss wrote:
> I am currently using acts_as_ferret to search on a Posts table (title
> and content fields). These posts also have tags (with has_many :tags,
> :through => :questions_tags). I can't figure out how to get
> acts_as_ferret to work with that relationship and allow searching of
> title, content, And tags at the same time (with the ability to set
> boost as well). Can this be done?

yeah, define a method that returns a string containing all tags, and
index that:

acts_as_ferret :fields => { 
  :title      => { :boost => 2 }, 
  :content    => {},
  :tag_string => {}
}

def tag_string
  tags.collect { |t| t.name }.join(' ')
end



Jens


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