On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:51:59AM +0200, Allen Young wrote:
> Jens Kraemer wrote:
> > I'd just rescue that and return nil for the field:
> >
> > Property2.ferret_fields.keys.each do |field|
> > define_method("#{field}") do
> > result = property.send("#{field}") rescue nil
> > end
> > end
> >
> For now, I'm rescuing the "NoMethodError" which works fine as well.
>
> >> 2. Say "Property1" has 500 fields as well as "Property2", each product
> >> will be indexed using 1000 fields while only at most 500 fields contains
> >> value.
> >
> > Do you really need to be able to run queries against each single one of
> > these 1000 fields? If not, you could concatenate their values into a
> > single large :properties field.
> I'm afraid so... because many of these fields are number fields and
> users will want to search these fields like "field1 is bigger than 1.5
> and smaller than 0.7".
Ok. To avoid the 500 nil fields per record you could override the to_doc
instance method in your model and only add the relevant fields depending
on the type of your property. The original implementation is in
acts_as_ferret's
instance_methods.rb .
Jens
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