I was noticing a similar problem as well.. This looks like the solution for me! thanks...
Eric On Sep 18, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Jens Kraemer wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:32:27AM +0200, Sidney Burks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So i'm trying to use acts_as_taggable with the acts_as_ferret >> plugin, >> where I have Post.rb model, which has a method tag_list made >> available >> through acts_as_taggable, as returns a string of associated tag words >> from the tags table (tag.rb). I've set up my Post.rb model in the >> following way. >> >> class Post < ActiveRecord::Base >> acts_as_taggable >> acts_as_ferret :fields => ["title", "description", :tag_list] >> >> ... >> >> end >> >> I'm noticing that when I submit a new post, the titles and >> descriptions >> are automatically indexed, and are searchable with ferret.. However, >> the tags do not show up in the results when I do a tag search. >> However, >> once I use script console and try to manually rebuild the Post index: >> >> Post.rebuild_index(Post) >> >> (is this syntax even correct? it returns a result of false) > > you can omit the parameter in this case, as Post is the class you call > rebuild_index upon. But doesn't hurt either. > >> the tags immediately start to appear in the tag search results. >> So is >> there a way to set ferret to automatically rebuild the tag index >> when a >> Post is saved? I imagine it probably shouldn't rebuild the entire >> index >> for all posts every time a post is saved, as that might slow >> things up >> eventually, right? So what would be a good solution..? >> > > I don't remember right now, how acts_as_taggable works, but it > seems the tags are set after the post is indexed. Calling > post.ferret_update after applying the tags to the post object should > reindex the object with tags included (this should work in 0.2.x > versions of aaf, too). If you are concerned about performance, and > use aaf 0.3, > you can also suppress the first indexing of the non-tagged post: > > post = Post.new(...) > post.disable_ferret > post.save > # set tags here ... > post.ferret_update > > or even more elegant: > > post.disable_ferret(:index_when_finished) do > post.save > # set tags here > end > > which calls ferret_update after executing the block. > > Jens > > > -- > webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH www.webit.de > Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur Jens Krämer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Schnorrstraße 76 Tel +49 351 46766 0 > D-01069 Dresden Fax +49 351 46766 66 > _______________________________________________ > 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
