You could just build the SQL snippet yourself - perhaps something like the 
following? Or use CONCAT (as you've suggested in your subject).

  indexes "'foo' + CAST(column AS INT)", :as => :prefixed_column

Cheers

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Pat

On 03/08/2010, at 4:49 AM, gmoniey wrote:

> I have a integer column, which I want to index with a prefix on it. I
> searched around the posts a bit, and found:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx/browse_thread/thread/639dd651b3f46e27/d3244fd922765be5?lnk=gst&q=concat#d3244fd922765be5
> 
> Unfortunately, in my case, the prefix is not in the db, so the above
> solution wont work. I was wondering if there is another way to add the
> prefix in the define_index.
> 
> Thanks.
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