I write the following code at the Businesslisting model

define_index do
 index business_name, :sortable=>true
 index service
 index description
 index district.ename, :as=>:district_name
end

-----------Controller Code
Businesslisting.search params[:keywords],
:select=>"business_name,email,telephone"



On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:47 PM, chamroeun ou <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks for your quick response
>
> We want only specific columns to be populated in the search results
> i have tried this
> BusinessListing.search "foo", :select => "id, column_a, column_b"
>
> But it returned null
>
> --------------------
>
> I also try  indexes location.district_name, :as => :district_name. It
> works. But it's a full association not just district_name column. What
> we actually want is just the single column.
>
>
> We are using ThinkingSpinx for our CambodiaZoom.com website
>
> Chamroeun
>
> On 11/25/10, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 25/11/2010, at 3:11 PM, chamroeun wrote:
> >
> >> I am a rookie in Thinking Sphinx for Rails.
> >>
> >> I am developing a business directory search. I have 2 tables
> >> BusinessListing and Location.
> >>
> >> When Sphinx found a record, it will give all the fields in the table.
> >> How can i select only the needed fields?
> >
> > Did you want to search on specific fields? Or did you want only specific
> > columns to be populated in the search results?
> >
> > For the first, you'll want to look at the :conditions option:
> > http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/searching.html#conditions
> >
> > And read up on extended search syntax for more complex situations:
> > http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.9.html#extended-syntax
> >
> > For just specific columns (ie: ActiveRecord's :select option), you can
> just
> > use :select in a search query, and it gets passed through to the
> underlying
> > ActiveRecord::Base.find request:
> >   BusinessListing.search "foo", :select => "id, column_a, column_b"
> >
> >> And in another case, i also need reference to another
> >> table(Businesslisting=>Location(district name). i need to retrieve the
> >> district name to include in the resultset of businesslisting. how can
> >> i do that?
> >
> > To include columns from associations in your indexes, you can just refer
> to
> > the associations in your define_index block:
> >
> >   define_index do
> >     # ...
> >     indexes location.district_name, :as => :district_name
> >     # ...
> >   end
> >
> > Cheers
> >
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