I understand. Sorry, I do not know enough about how the inner workings of Sphinx to be able to help.
Can anyone else help? Colin 2009/5/25 Daniel Jorge <[email protected]> > > Hi thank you for your answer > > The models you wrote are ok, I just simplified them for illustration > purposes. > > My problem is with search facets (filtering) using Thinking Sphinx. > Suppose that I had a book model with the fields author, publisher and > year. When a customer select the book category, he will be presented > with a list of books and on the left side, he will have the "facets" > like that: > > authors > -author 1 (203) > -author 2 (125) > -author 3 (99) > -author 4 (38) > ... > > publishers > -publisher1 (199) > -publisher1 (21) > -publisher1 (408) > -publisher1 (134) > ... > > years > -2009 (109) > -2008 (33) > -2007 (12) > -2006 (500) > ... > > This would be very easy if I had a book model. Thinking Sphinx requires > a facet to be defined like this on the "book" model: > > define_index do > indexes author, :facet => true > indexes publisher, :facet => true > indexes year, :facet => true > end > > THE PROBLEM IS THAT I DO NOT HAVE THIS MODEL AND THIS ATTRIBUTES > DEFINED. I don't have this defined because I would have to know all the > product types and all the possible attributes for each product type and > create a different model for each product type. > > ------------------- > WHAT IM LOOKING FOR > ------------------- > I'M LOOKING FOR SOME KIND OF METAPROGRAMMING THAT ENABLES ME TO FIND > WHAT ARE THE ATTRIBUTE TYPES FOR A CATEGORY OF PRODUCTS AND BUILD THE > FACETS AT RUNTIME. SOMETHING LIKE THIS IN MY PRODUCT MODEL: > > define_index do > find whatever attribute types are relevant for this category > and makes it :facet => true > end > > THANKS!! > -- > Posted via http://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
