Actually, i think sphinx and the official Ruby API supports aggregates
(AVG, MIN, MAX, COUNT) since 0.9.9-rc2. But I don't think riddle/
thinking-sphinx does :(  Am i wrong?

http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#api-func-setselect

On Aug 20, 7:51 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've not tried this myself, but you'll need to do something along the  
> lines of:
>    has "CAST(AVG(item_ratings.rating) as unsigned)", :as  
> => :item_rating,
>      :facet => true, :type => :integer
>    has item_ratings(:id), :as => :item_ratings_ids # to ensure join  
> exists
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 20/08/2009, at 4:24 PM, mrmanishs wrote:
>
>
>
> > I want to get average ratings for an item for facets, how do I do
> > this?
>
> > Example pseudo code:
> > Currently:
> >    has item_ratings(:rating), :as => :item_rating, :facet => true
>
> > Would llike something like:
> >    has item_ratings(:rating).average.to_i, :as
> > => :item_rating, :facet => true
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Manish
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