Hi Pat,

Still couldn't get it working after multiple trial-error.

Maybe I can just set the search result to sort by 'rating_average
DESC', that's all. Tried numerous places too couldn't get it right.
Where should I put it?

Am removing the sorting filter.

Thanks.

On Nov 9, 1:05 am, Victor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pat,
>
> Thanks for the heads-up.
>
> I have played around, and got the trip.name and trip.duration working,
> but not the order (rating_average, created_at). I have tried indexing
> both "rating_average" and "created_at", but couldn't get it work.
>
> The following configuration works for spots (all), trip name, trip
> duration.
>
> trip_day.rb
> ===========
> # ThinkingSphinx Index
>   define_index do
>     indexes spots.name, :as => :spot_name
>     indexes spots.city, :as => :spot_city
>     indexes spots.state, :as => :spot_state
>     indexes spots.country, :as => :spot_country
>     indexes trip.name, :as => :name
>     indexes trip.duration, :as => :duration
>     has trip.budget, :as => :budget
>     has trip.created_at, :as => :created_at
>     has trip.rating_average, :as => :rating_average
>     has trip_id
>   end
>
> trip.rb
> ========
> # ThinkingSphinx Index
>   define_index do
>     indexes name
>     indexes duration
>     #indexes spots.name, :as => :trip_spot_name
>     #indexes spots.city, :as => :trip_spot_city
>     #indexes spots.state, :as => :trip_spot_state
>     #indexes spots.country, :as => :trip_spot_country
>     has budget, created_at, rating_average
>   end
>
> On Nov 8, 8:25 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Victor
>
> > I think duration and name should be fields (given that's what they were 
> > originally) - so use 'indexes' instead of 'has'. This will ensure they're 
> > actually treated as string data for search queries.
>
> > --
> > Pat
>
> > On 08/11/2010, at 5:12 PM, Victor wrote:
>
> > > Hey Pat,
>
> > > I'm suspecting TripDay couldn't index using this:
>
> > >  has trip.budget, :as => :budget
> > >  has trip.created_at, :as => :created_at
> > >  has trip.rating_average, :as => :rating_average
>
> > > The duration that works mentioned above, could be directly from
> > > indexes of Trip instead.
>
> > > On Nov 6, 11:25 pm, Victor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Almost there, Pat, almost there!
>
> > >> trip_day.rb
> > >> ===========
>
> > >> class TripDay < ActiveRecord::Base
> > >>   belongs_to :trip
>
> > >>   has_many :trip_day_spots
> > >>   has_many :spots, :through => :trip_day_spots
>
> > >>   # ThinkingSphinx Index
> > >>   define_index do
> > >>     indexes spots.name, :as => :spot_name
> > >>     indexes spots.city, :as => :spot_city
> > >>     indexes spots.state, :as => :spot_state
> > >>     indexes spots.country, :as => :spot_country
> > >>     has trip_id
> > >>     has trip.name, :as => :name
> > >>     has trip.duration, :as => :duration
> > >>     has trip.budget, :as => :budget
> > >>     has trip.created_at, :as => :created_at
> > >>     has trip.rating_average, :as => :rating_average
> > >>   end
> > >> end
>
> > >> trips_controller.rb
> > >> ============
>
> > >> class TripsController < ApplicationController
> > >>   before_filter :require_user, :except => [:show, :index]
>
> > >>   def index
> > >>     if params[:filter] == 'on'
> > >>       country = params[:country] == 'All' ? {} : {:spot_country =>
> > >> params[:country]}
> > >>       duration = params[:days].blank? ? "" : params[:days]
>
> > >>       if !duration.blank? && country
> > >>         conditions = {:duration => duration}.merge(country)
> > >>       elsif !duration.blank? && country.blank?
> > >>         conditions = {:duration => duration}
> > >>       else country && duration.blank?
> > >>         conditions = country
> > >>       end
>
> > >>       keyword = params[:keyword].blank? ? "" : params[:keyword]
>
> > >>       case params[:order]
> > >>       when 'date_descend'
> > >>         order = {:order => 'created_at DESC'}
> > >>       when 'date_ascend'
> > >>         order = {:order => 'created_at ASC'}
> > >>       when 'rating_descend'
> > >>         order = {:order => 'rating_average DESC'}
> > >>       when 'rating_ascend'
> > >>         order = {:order => 'rating_average ASC'}
> > >>       when 'budget_dscend'
> > >>         order = {:order => 'budget DESC'}
> > >>       when 'budget_ascend'
> > >>         order = {:order => 'budget ASC'}
> > >>       else
> > >>         order = {}
> > >>       end
>
> > >>       #results = Trip.search params[:keyword], {:conditions =>
> > >> conditions, :star => true}.merge(order)
> > >>       #...@trips = results.paginate(:page => params[:page])
> > >>       @trip_days = TripDay.search(params[:keyword], {
> > >>           :conditions     => conditions,
> > >>           :star           => true,
> > >>           :group_by       => 'trip_id',
> > >>           :group_function => :attr,
> > >>           :page           => params[:page]
> > >>         }.merge(order))
> > >>       @trips = @trip_days.collect { |trip_day| trip_day.trip }
> > >>     else
> > >>       @trips = Trip.paginate(:all, :page => params[:page], :order =>
> > >> 'created_at DESC')
> > >>     end
> > >>   end
> > >> end
>
> > >> Trip's index.html.erb, I have changed:
>
> > >> From
> > >> <%= pluralize @trips.total_entries, 'trip' %></span>
> > >> To
> > >> <%= pluralize @trip_days.total_entries, 'trip' %></span>
>
> > >> From
> > >> <%= will_paginate @trips %>
> > >> To
> > >> <%= will_paginate @trip_days %>
>
> > >> Other attributes in Trip's index.html.erb refers directly to Trip,
> > >> with this tag: <% @trips.each do |trip| %> which works fine.
>
> > >> Other filter such as trip.duration, spot.address, spot.name all worked
> > >> fine.
>
> > >> Now one last problem here:
> > >> I can't filter by the "trip.name", and can't sort by "rating_average"
> > >> and "created_at" even though I have put them in "trip_day.rb".
>
> > >> On Nov 6, 7:21 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >>> Ah, I removed the pagination with the collect... of course.
>
> > >>> Probably best to keep the trip_day objects separate, and use that for 
> > >>> pagination:
>
> > >>>   @trip_days = TripDay.search(params[:keyword], {
> > >>>     :conditions     => conditions,
> > >>>     :star           => true,
> > >>>     :group_by       => 'trip_id',
> > >>>     :group_function => :attr,
> > >>>     :page           => params[:page]
> > >>>   }.merge(order))
> > >>>   @trips = @trip_days.collect { |trip_day| trip_day.trip }
>
> > >>> And then, you can use @trips for looping through results, and 
> > >>> @trip_days for pagination information (ie: total_entries).
>
> > >>> However, this doesn't get around the attribute issue. You could pull 
> > >>> the attributes all into the TripDay index:
>
> > >>>   has trip.budget, :as => :budget
> > >>>   has trip.created_at, :as => :created_at
> > >>>   has trip.rating_average, :as => :rating_average
>
> > >>> This is a pretty massive workaround just because the Trip index isn't 
> > >>> working as we'd like, though...
>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Pat
>
> > >>> On 05/11/2010, at 5:21 PM, Victor wrote:
>
> > >>>> Argh, it was in the search function you added:
>
> > >>>> @trips = TripDay.search(params[:keyword], {
> > >>>>    :conditions     => conditions,
> > >>>>    :star           => true,
> > >>>>    :group_by       => 'trip_id',
> > >>>>    :group_function => :attr,
> > >>>>    :page           => params[:page]
> > >>>>  }.merge(options)).collect { |trip_day| trip_day.trip }
>
> > >>>> I changed the last line .merge(options) to .merge(order) and I "think"
> > >>>> it is going there now! Great.
>
> > >>>> Now when the app tries to render the index.html.erb to show the search
> > >>>> results, it gives me this:
>
> > >>>> ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `total_entries' for
> > >>>> []:Array) on line #11 of app/views/trips/index.html.erb:
> > >>>> 8:           <% if params[:filter] == 'on' %>
> > >>>> 9:             <h1>
> > >>>> 10:               Showing <span id="total-results" class="filtered">
> > >>>> 11:                                <%= pluralize @trips.total_entries, 
> > >>>> 'trip' %></span>
> > >>>> 12:               <% if !params[:keyword].blank? %>
> > >>>> 13:                 on <span id="keywords" class="filtered"><%=
> > >>>> params[:keyword] %></span>
> > >>>> 14:               <% end %>
>
> > >>>> I think this is probably because it is searching in TripDay and there
> > >>>> are no attributes found in TripDay.
>
> > >>>> What should I do to display the attributes from Trip instead of
> > >>>> TripDay? Because this happens to my wildcard search too.
>
> > >>>> On Nov 5, 2:05 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>>> What about in your controller?
>
> > >>>>> --
> > >>>>> Pat
>
> > >>>>> On 05/11/2010, at 5:01 PM, Victor wrote:
>
> > >>>>>> When I performed a search, the following 500 occured:
>
> > >>>>>> Processing TripsController#index (for 115.164.60.198 at 2010-11-05
> > >>>>>> 13:50:19) [GET]
> > >>>>>>  Parameters: {"country"=>"All", "days"=>"", "action"=>"index",
> > >>>>>> "filter"=>"on", "order"=>"date_descend", "controller"=>"trips",
> > >>>>>> "keyword"=>"mid valley"}
>
> > >>>>>> NameError (undefined local variable or method `options' for
> > >>>>>> #<TripsController:0xb693d44>):
>
> > >>>>>> I did not have any variable "options" anywhere in my trip.rb, or
> > >>>>>> Trip's index.html.erb.
>
> > >>>>>> On Nov 4, 9:37 pm, Victor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>>>>> Sorry Pat, we posted at the same time. Will get back to you when I
> > >>>>>>> have tried that. Thanks.
>
> > >>>>>>> On Nov 4, 9:29 pm, Victor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >>>>>>>> Hi Pat,
>
> > >>>>>>>> I am sorry that I may need step-by-step guide here.
>
> > >>>>>>>> Ok, I have added "has trip_id" in the TripDay model.
>
> > >>>>>>>> Next is the trips_controller.rb. If you see my code above, I have 
> > >>>>>>>> also
> > >>>>>>>> added ":group_by => trip_id" and ":group_function => :attr" to the
> > >>>>>>>> Trip.search.
>
> > >>>>>>>> The filter form is in my Trips' index.html.erb. I notice that I
> > >>>>>>>> haven't really included the Trip.search to search TripDay as well
> > >>>>>>>> because when I search, it
>
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>
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