I have the same problem, it's strange.

On Mar 22, 12:15 pm, wbharding <[email protected]> wrote:
> Still no dice.  From what I can tell, I'm going to have to dig into
> how the query is being sent to Sphinx and what the actual weighting
> values are that are being returned.  I've spent some time in the
> Sphinx forums this morning and it sounds like numerous people have
> gotten this working successfully, though I haven't actually seen any
> verifiable examples where TS users got this working correctly?  They
> must be out there, or I'm sure you would have heard about this
> sooner... but I've tried this across multiple different models/indexes
> with many param sets, and it seems like I'm doing something
> systematically wrong+hard to debug.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mar 21, 1:25 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Bill
>
> > Just wondering - what match mode are you using? Perhaps it only works  
> > in extended mode - from the documentation it seems quite clear that no  
> > weighting happens for boolean mode, but not sure about the 
> > others:http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.8.html#weighting
>
> > so:
> > Item.search "bizarre", :match_mode => :extended, :field_weights => {
> >    "title" => 100,
> >    "tag_names"  => 1
>
> > }
>
> > --
> > Pat
>
> > On 18/03/2009, at 6:16 PM, wbharding wrote:
>
> > > Same thing -- set_property has no affect on the search results.
>
> > > Just updated to the trunk version of TS and am continuing to get no
> > > difference from field_weights.
>
> > > HMM.
>
> > > I looked into the riddle code, and as best I can tell, it looks like
> > > it's trying to pass the field weights to Sphinx. When I do a query
> > > like Item.search("bizarre", :field_weights => { :title =>
> > > 1, :tag_names => 20 }).  I've gone into the
> > > Riddle::Client#query_message and I can see the message includes the
> > > string "field_weights" (though the value of field weights appears to
> > > be a bunch of binary code.
>
> > > It seems like a reasonable first step in debugging might be to
> > > separate the TS from Sphinx itself?  Is there a way I can communicate
> > > with Sphinx with little/no intervention from TS?  The problem feels
> > > like Sphinx might be ignoring my field weights...?
>
> > > Thanks again,
> > > Bill
>
> > > On Mar 15, 10:38 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Hi Bill
>
> > >> I've no idea why this isn't working... what happens if you set the
> > >> field weights using set_property in your define_index block instead?
>
> > >> It's annoying that we can't test this using Sphinx's commandline
> > >> search tool, as it doesn't have flags for weights.
>
> > >> --
> > >> Pat
>
> > >> On 16/03/2009, at 3:51 PM, wbharding wrote:
>
> > >>> Hey all, I'm having a problem getting TS to acknowledge
> > >>> the :field_weights I am setting for my search.  I have tried to boil
> > >>> this problem down to be as simple as possible, but am having a hard
> > >>> time figuring out where to dig in debugging it.  Here is my model:
>
> > >>> class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
> > >>>  define_index do
> > >>>            indexes title, :sortable => true
> > >>>            indexes description
> > >>>            indexes item_tags.tag_name, :as => :tag_names
> > >>>            indexes categories.name, :as => :category_names
> > >>>   ....
> > >>>  end
> > >>> ...
> > >>> end
>
> > >>> I have a database with a bunch of items, some of which have the word
> > >>> "bizarre" in their titles, some of which have been tagged as
> > >>> "bizarre."  But I can run either of these two searches and I get
> > >>> identical results:
>
> > >>> Item.search("bizarre", :field_weights => {"title" => 1,  
> > >>> "tag_names" =>
> > >>> 20 })
> > >>> Item.search("bizarre", :field_weights => {"title" => 20, "tag_names"
> > >>> => 1 })
>
> > >>> I have tried a variety of ideas... increasing and decreasing the
> > >>> arbitrarily chosen weight of "20", searching with different words,
> > >>> setting different match modes, using symbols to name the indexes
> > >>> instead of strings, and even different queries... all for naught.  
> > >>> No
> > >>> matter what I try, I continue to get the same set of results
> > >>> regardless of my field_weights.  I also tried a couple tests using  
> > >>> the
> > >>> set_property version of field weights, and this too had no effect on
> > >>> my results.
>
> > >>> I'm running Sphinx 0.9.8-release (r1371) with a release of TS that I
> > >>> grabbed a couple months ago (new enough to have grouping working,
> > >>> 0.9.9?).

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