That will allow me to search for user.first_name, and works, but what
about searching for that plus text from a post.

In other words, I want all posts by an author with the first name
'carson' that has a post title 'whatever'

Thanks for the help!

On Mar 24, 1:52 am, Amir Yalon <[email protected]> wrote:
> In stead of:
>   has user(:id), :as => :author
> try to declare:
>   indexes user.first_name, :as => :author
> and adjust your query accordingly.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 00:30, Carson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Very new to this, so please stick with me.  I have 2 models:
>
> > User:
> > id, first_name, last_name, created_at
>
> > define_index do
> >    indexes user.first_name, user.last_name
> > end
>
> > Post:
> > id, user_id, title, post, created_at
>
> > define_index do
> >    indexes title, post
>
> >    has user(:id), :as => :author
>
> >    set_property :enable_star => 1
> >    set_property :min_prefix_len => 3
> >  end
>
> > I'm trying to search all Posts with "page" in the title, that have
> > been authored by a certain user.  I can get it to work by passing in
> > the ID of a user with conditions on the search.  But how can I do it
> > by passing in a string of the first_name of the user?  Is it possible?
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > following is the actual search, that uses the user_id:
>
> > @per_page = 20
>
> >      conditions = Hash.new
>
> >      if params[:start_date] != nil && params[:end_date] != nil
> >        start_date = Time.parse(params[:start_date])
> >        end_date = Time.parse(params[:end_date])
> >        conditions.merge!({ :created_at => start_date..end_date })
> >      end
>
> >      authors = Array.new
> >      authors.push(16)
>
> >      conditions.merge!({:author => authors})
>
> >     �[email protected](User)
> >     �[email protected](Post)
>
> >  if @classes.count > 0
> >       �...@results = ThinkingSphinx::Search.search '*' + params[:query]
> > + '*', :with => conditions, :classes => @classes, :index_weights =>
> > { School => 10, User => 10, UserWallpost => 70, GroupDiscussion => 90,
> > GroupDiscussionComment => 80, Item => 100 }, :retry_stale =>
> > true, :per_page => @per_page, :page => params[:page]
> >  end
>
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