In far more simple terms, is there a way I can do:

User.first.contacts.search('dave')

That would be ideal, but I haven't been able to find the right indexes/
has combinations.

On Aug 21, 5:17 pm, gobigdave <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have classes like:
>
> class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
>   has_many :relationships, :class_name => "Relationship", :foreign_key
> => "user_id", :dependent => :delete_all
>   has_many :owner_relationships, :class_name =>
> "Relationship", :foreign_key => "person_id", :dependent => :delete_all
>   has_many :owners, :through => :owner_relationships, :source => :user
> end
>
> class Contact < Person
> end
>
> class User < Person
>   has_many :people, :through => :relationships, :source => :person
>   has_many :contacts, :through => :relationships, :source
> => :person, :conditions => ["relationships.kind = ?",
> Relationship::CONTACT]
>   has_many :colleagues, :through => :relationships, :source
> => :person, :conditions => ["relationships.kind = ?",
> Relationship::COLLEAGUE]
>
>   define_index do
>     has owners(:id), :as => :owners
>     has owner_relationships.kind, :as => :owners_kind
>   end
> end
>
> class Relationship < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :user,   :class_name => "Person", :foreign_key =>
> "user_id"
>   belongs_to :person, :class_name => "Person", :foreign_key =>
> "person_id"
> end
>
> Essentially, users have contacts and colleagues. Colleagues can only
> be other users, but Contacts can be any Person. My problem is that I
> can't get data to match up. For example:
>
> user = User.first
> user.contacts.count # => 128
>
> but
>
> user = User.first
> people = Person.search(:with => { :owners => user.id, :owners_kind =>
> Relationship::CONTACT })
> people.total_entries # => 140
>
> The search returns people that have COLLEAGUE relationships, and I
> can't make it stop. Any idea how I can limit my search to a user's
> contacts or colleagues? I tried adding another has_many contact_owners
> to Person, and then adding a separate index, but that didn't work
> either. Looking at the SQL in the sphinx.conf file, it looks like two
> joins are made to the relationships table - once with a kind condition
> and one without. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a bug here?
>
> It would be great to be able to do user.contacts.search and have it
> work. I tried it but TS complains about a missing user_id foreign key.
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