At the moment we're not using TS's faceting at all - we've got a controller sending an id/count map back to our JS which knows what strings the IDs map to.
The solution doesn't need to use TS facet's support (such that it is). On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Michael, > > I had to build faceted search earlier this year, and moved from Thinking > Sphinx to Solr. > > Unfortunately Sphinx can't handle string based faceting, so Thinking > Sphinx doesn't. There's a database level hack (stored proc) for postgres to > make it possible but I didn't think it was something to put into production > for a search based application. > > Cheers, > Nicholas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/IifEK6SpdsUJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- Michael Pearson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
