I would suggest going with the thinkingsphinx plugin instead of ultrasphinx. Thinkingsphinx's syntax is much cleaner.
http://ts.freelancing-gods.com/usage.html http://railscasts.com/episodes/120-thinking-sphinx On the other hand, if your dataset is small enough, you could try scoped-search, which helps you construct the SQL to perform your searches: http://wiki.github.com/wvanbergen/scoped_search But as Robert said, databases/SQL are not great for this type of queries and you may not be able to scale much when you have many conditions and/or big volumes of data. On Apr 30, 4:54 pm, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > Using SQL or activerecord I am not sure how to search all fields for a > > specific value ? > > I know how to do this by just writing ruby code. To do it in SQL or an > > activerecord find w/condition, > > I don't know how. I actually am supposed to combine an find w/ > > condition and a search all fields for a > > value and AND those together. I think perhaps it can't be done with a > > single find ? > > What you're probably looking for is a full-text search engine. Here's an > article I found using the Sphinx engine: > > http://www.neeraj.name/blog/articles/599-working-with-sphinx-fulltext... > > If you needs are pretty basic and you don't mind a database specific > implementation you can also look at MySQL's full-text search > capabilities. SQL was just not designed for such queries. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
