Er, last paragraph should read "We use the above to build *a hash* that incorporates results..."
On May 3, 4:05 pm, wbharding <[email protected]> wrote: > Here here. I'm still just using results.each_with_groupby_and_count > to essentially hand-build my facets, because we need facets to be > based on all results in the DB, not just the current page. I'm not > sure I can ever recall having seen a search where facets were supposed > to be relative to the current page. I believe the "point" of facets > (at least as I've seen them used, on eBay, Yelp, etc) is to give the > user a sense of all the results returned, so the user can know which > additional filters they might want to apply to their search. > > Until the Powers that Be see fit to revise facets to incorporate all > results, you can always try something like: > > categories_hash = {} > categories = Item.search(search_string, :group_by => > 'category_ids', :group_function => :attr, :group_clause => "@count > DESC") > categories.each_with_groupby_and_count { |item, group, count| > categories_hash.merge!(group => count) } > > We use the above to build that incorporates results grouped by > category_id across all 2 million items in our DB. Its uglier than > facets, but it doesn't consider pagination. > > Cheers, > Bill > > On Apr 27, 3:12 pm, Eric Obershaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Anyway, I feel it is unintuitive for pagination settings to interfere > > > with facet information. If I do a search, and there are 500 results, > > > the facet information should reflect the total result set > > > > I would like to find out how others have dealt with the faceted > > search > > > issues I'm having. > > > I completely agree. I just struggled with the same thing and ended up > > just writing my own pagination. > > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Thuva Tharma wrote: > > > > Hello Sanjay, > > > > Thank you for your reply. Your suggestion works. Suppose I have 1000 > > > restaurants. Then the following returns the correct facet information: > > > >facets= Restaurant.facets(:limit => 1000, :max_matches => 1000) > > > > By the way, I'm not sure why I need to specify both :limit > > > and :max_matches. > > > > Now, I have a different problem. The pagination no longer works. If I > > > do,facets.for, then all the restaurants are loaded at once. How do I > > > implement pagination? > > > > Anyway, I feel it is unintuitive for pagination settings to interfere > > > with facet information. If I do a search, and there are 500 results, > > > the facet information should reflect the total result set (containing > > > 500 records). Currently, the facet information seems to reflect the > > > result set in the current page. > > > > I would like to find out how others have dealt with the faceted search > > > issues I'm having. > > > > P.S. If I put a configuration entry in sphinx.conf file for > > > max_matches and run rake ts:index, then the entry disappears. Running > > > rake:start and rake:stop doesn't behave that way. > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > -- Thuva Tharma > > > > On Apr 26, 11:34 am, Sanjay <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I think this might be due to the pagination settings on your request. > > >> To increase the number of results on a specific request, try the > > >> request with the following parameters: > > > >> Restaurant.facets(:limit => 50, :max_matches => 50) > > > >> Set your limit based on the number of results you want. Also note > > >> that max_matches can not be greater than the value in your sphinx > > >> configuration file. > > > >> On Apr 24, 2:59 pm, Thuva Tharma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> I'm having problems with thefacetsfunctionality offered by > > >>> Thinking > > >>> Sphinx. I have a restaurant model configured as shown in this > > >>> pastie:http://gist.github.com/101305 > > > >>> When I do Restaurant.facets, the returned hash doesn't reflect the > > >>> records in the database. A sample hash that was returned can be seen > > >>> in this pastie:http://gist.github.com/101308 > > > >>> The facet information for region_id is completely correct. > > > >>> However, the facet information for cuisine_ids and > > >>> neighbourhood_id is > > >>> is wrong. The cuisine_ids and neighbourhood_id hashes are missing > > >>> many > > >>> ids that should be there. > > > >>> For example, there are 43 restaurants in the neighbourhood given > > >>> by id > > >>> 238. Also, there are 407 restaurants with the cuisine given by id > > >>> 11. > > >>> As you can see from the pastie above, those ids are not in the hash. > > > >>> I couldn't figure out the issue. Reindexing didn't work. I also > > >>> tried > > >>> deleting the files in db/sphinx and indexing. That didn't work as > > >>> well. > > > >>> By the way, I'm using 0.9.8-release (r1371). > > > >>> Thank you in advance. > > > >>> -- Thuva Tharma --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
