Hi Stephen
Thanks for the feature suggestion, will keep it in mind (and if anyone else
would find this useful, please say so)
Cheers
--
Pat
On 20/02/2010, at 3:20 AM, Stephen wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I did end up doing something like this:
>
> Topic.search("steve",
> :conditions => {:discussable_type => "Band"},
> :with => { :discussable_id => 1 })
>
> A nice feature might be to allow
>
> has :discussable, :polymorphic => true
>
> So you could then do
>
> Topic.search("steve", :condtitions => { :discussable =>
> @discussable })
>
> and have it work this out on its own.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 18, 3:11 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Stephen
>>
>> Conditions can (and should) be strings - because they reference fields.
>> Filters (managed by the :with option, as you've used already), must be
>> integers, timestamps, booleans or floats.
>>
>> So, filtering on discussable_id is easy enough, because it's an integer, and
>> you can use it in a filter. You can combine this with a search upon a field
>> for discussable_type, although field searches make use of Sphinx's smarts -
>> which is good in some situations, but can get in the way in others...
>>
>> So, you may want to add a CRC'd attribute for discussable_type
>> instead:http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/common_issues.html#string_fil...
>>
>> Does this fit what you're after?
>>
>> --
>> Pat
>>
>> On 18/02/2010, at 5:58 AM, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> I've created a message board system thats completely polymorphic, it
>>> can be attached to pretty much any other object in my program and it
>>> just works.
>>
>>> So I want to be able to search for all topics, within a particular
>>> board. When it was tied to just a band_id this was easy as
>>
>>> has band_id
>>
>>> :with => { :band_id => 5 }
>>
>>> Now, topics have a discussable_id and a discussable_type. It seems
>>> that conditions/attributes must be an integer of some kind - so how
>>> can I filter based on that relationship?
>>
>>> Thanks..
>>
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