Hi, and thank you for the responses! What I mean is this:
So instead of posts, think questions. Imagine a site like Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/). Near the ask box, there's a statement: "Can't find it with search? Ask" I find this flow for the user a little cumbersome, and it relies on the user not to be lazy and search before asking. I was thinking wouldn't it be nice if the search step was just part of the asking: that is, a user asks a question and the app searches for similar questions and says "are you sure your question has not already been asked?" The point being that the question doesn't have to be identical, but rather, if it is similar to other ones it encourages people not to ask questions /similar/ to those that have already been asked. For now I'm thinking of :match_mode => :any. However, it seems like this isn't necessarily the best solution for the situation... ideally, the order of relevance of the search results would be weighted by the *least* common words in the question. Anyway Sphinx might not be the right solution. A separate word count table in the DB might be necessary to weight search results. Anyone seen anything like this? Thanks again! -ajg- On Dec 9, 4:56 am, "Henrik Nyh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you really do need to use Sphinx for this, perhaps phrase search > (quotes,http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#extended-syntax) is > what you want. > > It's hard to know what you're looking for without more details. Do you > want to avoid post bodies being exactly identical? If so, > validates_uniqueness_of or something similar that doesn't use Sphinx > makes more sense. If you want some more refined similarity measure, > let us know what the requirements are exactly. > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Henrik Nyh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > class Post < ActiveRecord::Base > > validates_uniqueness_of :body > > end > > > ? > > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:10 AM, agib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On my site I want to prevent people from posting the same thing > >> twice... so I want to run a search once the user is done with the post > >> to prompt them to make sure their post is unique. Using the entire > >> post as a search query doesn't work... should I break it up word by > >> word? I'm using sphinx with thinking-sphinx... has anyone encountered > >> this before? > > >> I was thinking of searching all the words individually and picking > >> merging the smallest search result sets... > > >> Thanks, > >> Aaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
