On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:47:30PM +0100, Andreas Korth wrote:
>
> On 31.10.2006, at 18:02, John Mcgrath wrote:
>
> > Hi, I'm using Rails/AAF with Ferret 0.10.11, and my index occasionally
> > (every few weeks, roughly) becomes corrupted.
> >
> > If the index is busted, until I rebuild it our users are unable to
> > save
> > anything. I get errors like the one below, and the save rolls back.
>
> The acts_as_ferret plugin employs ActiveRecord callbacks such as
> after_update to index the models. If an exception is thrown inside a
> callback method, the action is rolled back.
>
> > My question is, is there any way to catch the error, and continue with
> > the save even if the model isn't indexed?
>
> Several ways. You could overwrite the save mehtod (either on a per-
> model-basis or for ActiveRecord::Base) to read:
>
> def save
> begin
> create_or_update
> rescue => any_exception
> # deal with exceptions you can handle or re-raise
> end
> end
>
> Or, even better, you could patch the acts_as_ferret code to resort to
> a callback such as "rescue_error_in_ferret". See the 'ferret_create'
> method of 'acts_as_ferret/lib/instance_methods.rb'. You'd basically
> wrap the method in a begin/rescue block and see if the model
> respond_to? :rescue_error_in_ferret. If it does, call that method or
> else re-raise the exception.
overwriting the callback handlers in your model would be another
possibility:
class MyModel < AR::Base
acts_as_ferret ...
# ferret_create is declared by aaf, and used for before_update and
# before_create events.
alias :old_ferret_create :ferret_create
def ferret_create
old_ferret_create
rescue
# handle the error...
true # tell AR everything is fine
end
end
Jens
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