+1, I'd like to see this.

On Feb 23, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Pat Allan wrote:

> 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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