OK. I saw that. In that search, I am only indexing/searching one field to begin with so that will not help.
I am thinking of just doing a wild card search with SQL and then just popping those results if they exist right to the begining. By the way, thanks for this great plugin and great support!!! On Aug 13, 3:47 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately, there's not that kind of precise flexibility in Sphinx > (no idea if it exists in Lucene/Solr or Xapian). > > However, you can put weightings on specific fields, so words that > appear in them will rank higher than words that appear in other > fields. Not quite the same as exact matches being ranked first, though. > > In your define_index block, if you want model-wide defaults: > set_property :field_weights => {'name' => 10, 'description' => 5} > > Or for specific searches: > Model.search 'query', :field_weights => {'name' => 10, > 'description' => 5} > > Any fields that aren't mentioned have a default weight of 1. > > -- > Pat > > On 13/08/2009, at 1:01 AM, tashfeen.ekram wrote: > > > > > i have a name field that contains names of medical conditions. i would > > like to weight search results that contian the full name and nothing > > else over things that contain the name plus other things. is there any > > easy way to give those a higher weight? > > > thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
