Hi everyone, I've posted a few times in the past about the following problem, but I think the only way to address it is to add at least one new feature to Thinking Sphinx. If there is someone who can add it on a consulting basis, I'm happy to contribute the resulting code back to the open source community!
Here's the issue: I have many Ruby classes that are being indexed. It's an education domain, so I have classes like "School" and "Class". I also have a bunch of resource types that have a common abstract base class "Material". The concrete subclasses are things like "Book" and "Curriculum". Each subclass is stored in its own table which is why the base class is abstract. I need to be able to do a search over one or more classes that extend "Material". In other words, I'd like to be able to so this: ThinkingSphinx.search "phrase", :conditions => 'format = "pdf"', :classes => [Book, Curriculum] The trouble is, Sphinx gives me an error saying it can't find the 'format' attribute in the schema for "School" and "Class" (which seems odd since I'm not searching over them). So I need Sphinx to be improved so I can search over a list of classes without it blowing up because other classes that I'm not searching over don't have the specified attributes. Can anyone help? If not, I'll try to figure how to hack Sphinx myself, but it's not an effective use of my time and I'd rather pay someone else to do a nice job of it so it can be reused by the community. Thanks! Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
