Alastair Moore wrote: > Hello all, > > Quick question (possibly!) - I've got a few records indexed and doing a > search for 'test' reports in no hits even though I know the word 'tests' > exists in the indexed field. Doing a search for 'tests' produces a > result. I would have thought that 'test' would match 'tests' but no such > luck! > > Thanks, > > Alastair
Alastair - if you only want to find the plural of something and not the full stem of words then ROR has a plurisation capability. It will take test and bring back all the plurals or take tests and bring back the singulars. You can then search on all these words. It is not a full stemmer but in some circumstances perhaps this may be all that you are wanting to do. One thing to watch that caught us out was that as standard pluralistation of words with two 'ss' at the end does not work properly. For example, "glass" would come back as "glas" from the pluralizer. There is a simple fix that is in the ROR forum that covers all this off. I would only use the ror pluraliser if all you are looking to do is bring back plurals of words and are not interested in the full stemming of the words. For example, if you do a search on "tax" full stemming should also search on "taxes" and "taxation". Pluralise would not search on "taxation". Hope this helps. Clare -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
