On 4/9/07, John Joseph Bachir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That explains it very well, thanks. I wasn't aware of the default > sort behavior. It might be worth it to mention that (more?) > prominently in the documentation.
Point taken. I've added this to SortField: * Note 1: Care should be taken when using the :auto sort-type since * numbers will occur before other strings in the index so if you are sorting * a field with both numbers and strings (like a title field which might have * "24" and "Prison Break") then the sort_field will think it is sorting * integers when it really should be sorting strings. * * Note 2: When sorting by integer, integers are only 4 bytes so anything * larger will cause strange sorting behaviour. Plus this where the :sort parameter is mentioned; * :sort:: A Sort object or sort string describing how the field * should be sorted. A sort string is made up of field names * which cannot contain spaces and the word "DESC" if you * want the field reversed, all seperated by commas. For * example; "rating DESC, author, title". Note that Ferret * will try to determine a field's type by looking at the * first term in the index and seeing if it can be parsed as * an integer or a float. Keep this in mind as you may need * to specify a fields type to sort it correctly. For more * on this, see the documentation for SortField Let me know if you have any suggestions where else you might expect to see something about this. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/ _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
