Hello Pat,

Thats way more interesting than my porposition.

Thanx for the insight ;)

Alex



On Aug 21, 11:55 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alex
>
> I think your two options are:
> * index questions to include answer data, but only get questions  
> returned in search results (ie: what you're doing now)
> * index both questions and answers, and search across both, and get a  
> mixture of questions and answers returned.
>
> In the latter situation, you could ensure that only one result per  
> question is returned by doing the following in Question:
>    has :id, :as => :question_id
> And in Answer
>    has question_id
>
> And then for searching:
>    ThinkingSphinx.search 'query',
>      :group_by => 'question_id',
>      :group_function => :attr
>
> This way, you'll get a mixture of Questions and Answers, but no  
> duplications of pairs.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 21/08/2009, at 10:49 AM, Alejandro Riera wrote:
>
>
>
> > So, no insights in this topic?
> > Any idea will be welcomed :)
>
> > Thx,
>
> > Alex
>
> > On Aug 15, 9:11 pm, Alejandro  Riera <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hello everybody.
>
> >> I'm very happy with the results of sphinx and TS (thx Pat for it!)  
> >> but
> >> I have a problem I dont manage to resolve.
>
> >> My case is de following: I have 2 models: questions (Q) and asnwers
> >> (A).
> >> As you would expect Q has_many A and A belongs_to Q.
>
> >> What I want is to search inside both Q and A. So what I do right now
> >> is the following:
>
> >>  class Question < ActiveRecord::Base
> >>   has_many :answers
> >>   define_index do
> >>     indexes body
> >>     indexes answers.body, :as => :answers
> >>   end
> >>  end
>
> >> The problem is that if sphinx (or TS I'm not sure) finds a match
> >> inside an answer he is going to give me the question containing it
> >> (even if the question doesn't matches the query). This might be a
> >> little strange from the user point of view: he might see some results
> >> that apparently don't match his search query.
>
> >> What I like to do is to show him the Question and, next to it, the
> >> answer(s) containing the match.
>
> >> I would love TS to give me  an array like this: [Q, A, Q, Q, Q, A,
> >> A, ....] each answer belonging to the question on his left.
>
> >> Do you think it is possible to make something like that?
>
> >> I've tried to be clear presenting the problem, if that's not the case
> >> don't hesitate to ask me anything
>
> >> Thank you a lot
>
> >> Alex
>
>
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