Hi Matt What's your define_index block looking like? I'll double-check the tests against 0.9.9.
-- Pat On 24/01/2009, at 2:47 PM, Matt Murphy wrote: > Pat, > > Do you know if facets work in the sphinx-0.9.9 branch? I'm getting > an exception when I call Model.facets. I've just added :facet => > true to a few of the columns in the index definition. Are there any > column types that can't be treated as a facet? > > Error below: > > >> Model.facets > NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! > The error occurred while evaluating nil.columns > from /path/to/project/vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx/lib/ > thinking_sphinx/attribute.rb:230:in `type_from_database' > from /path/to/project/vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx/lib/ > thinking_sphinx/attribute.rb:236:in `translated_type_from_database' > from /path/to/project/vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx/lib/ > thinking_sphinx/attribute.rb:148:in `type' > from /path/to/project/vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx/lib/ > thinking_sphinx/facet.rb:29:in `value' > from /path/to/project/vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx/lib/ > thinking_sphinx/facet_collection.rb:17:in `add_from_results' > from /path/to/project/vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx/lib/ > thinking_sphinx/collection.rb:118:in `each_with_groupby_and_count' > > > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Pat Allan <p...@freelancing- > gods.com> wrote: > > Hi Tom > > You need to define the facets in your define_index block - either by > using existing fields or attributes: > indexes location, :facet => true > has age, :facet => true > Or by adding an explicit column for the facet: > facet location > > Keep in mind facets need to have unique names across facets, > attributes and fields - so you couldn't put all three of the above > lines together, you'd need to give the last one an alias via the :as > option. > > Once that's set up and you've stopped Sphinx, re-indexed and > restarted, then you can use it on the model as follows: > Model.facets > Which returns a collection accessible as a hash, with keys for each > facet and results as the values. You can also drill down into a full > result set: > Model.facets.for(:location => "Melbourne") > > There's also a little bit more detail in this gist: > http://gist.github.com/48328 > > Multi-model faceting is not supported *yet*, but it's in the pipeline. > > Cheers > > -- > Pat > > On 22/01/2009, at 4:27 AM, Tom Hunter wrote: > > > > > Could someone give me a brief explanation of how to use the facets? > > I'm not sure quite what to put as arguments when calling the facets > > method and if anything needs go to in the define_index block? > Thanks > > in advance! > > > > - Tom Hunter > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
