Hi Graham That's just a placeholder/example MySQL function - I've no idea if there's a function that'll do what you want, but I'm guessing the syntax would look something like that.
Cheers -- Pat On 08/12/2008, at 2:21 PM, Graham Glass wrote: > Hi Pat, > > Thanks for the hint! I've been reading more of the docs and my next > question is: where does the CONVERT_ENUM_TO_INT function go? Is that > an SQL function or a Ruby/Rails function? > > Cheers, > Graham > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Pat Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Graham > > I'm not entirely sure how enum's work in MySQL, but if there's a > function you can use/create to translate the values to integers, then > you could wrap it up in your attribute as follows: > > has "CONVERT_ENUM_TO_INT(`enum_col`)", :as => :enum_col, :type > => :integer > > Which would save you from migrating the data. > > Cheers > > -- > Pat > > On 08/12/2008, at 12:09 PM, Graham Glass wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > One of the columns on my Rails model is represented as an enum in > > MySQL. But Sphinx doesn't seem to allow enums as an attribute type > > which is important to me. > > > > What would you recommend that I migrate my enum column to a simple > > integer and define constants in my application like enum1=1, > enum2=2, > > etc.? > > > > That seems like the simplest solution, but I wanted to get some > > feedback before I proceed. > > > > Thanks, > > Graham > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" 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/thinking-sphinx?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
