Tom & Pat: Tom's suggestion worked!
Thanks much guys, -Matt On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Tom Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, > > I am using it successfully with sphinx 0.9.9. I had the same error at > first. Explicitly declaring the type on the field fixed it. For example: > > has 'category_id, :facet => true > > would cause the same error, but changing it to: > > has 'category_id, :facet => true, :type => :integer > > would fix it. > > This is using MySQL. > > - Tom > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Pat Allan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
