Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.  Your'e completely right, it
was valid syntax.

I'm not sure what I did wrong before, but playing around with it, with
everything looking much like I originally presented it in my first
post, everything is working great.

Thanks again.

On Aug 3, 12:53 am, James Healy <[email protected]> wrote:
> "indexes B.content" *should* be valid syntax.
>
> This is just a guess, but it's possible sphinx is failing because your
> foreign key and association have the same name. Can you name your
> association something else?
>
>   Class A < ActiveRecord::Base
>     belongs_to :not_b, :foreign_key => "B", :class_name => "B"
>
>     define_index do
>       indexes not_b.content, :as => "content"
>     end
>   end
>
> -- James Healy <jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com>  Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:49:26 +1000
>
>
>
> Maneki Neko wrote:
>
> > I have a legacy database I'm working with structured as follows, where
> > the name and content for one thing is split into two separate tables:
> > A (table)
> > :name
> > :B (a foreign key)
> > B (table)
> > :content
>
> > I've currently got A indexed by Thinking Sphinx on :name, but I'd like
> > to also index on :content.  How can I structure things so that a query
> > against A will search across both the contents of :content as well
> > as :name?
>
> > When I just use
> > indexes B
> > I now have an index of numbers rather than of the actual content
> > itself, which isn't too useful for searching.
>
> > When I take the direct approach of telling Rails
> > belongs_to :B, :foreign_key => :B
> > and
> > indexes B.content
> > that doesn't work with the Sphinx.  However, basic Rails functionality
> > does work, like being able to go a.b.content to see the content.
>
> > Is there any way to do this without having to modify the legacy
> > databases themselves?
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