Indeed, Sphinx will be able to do what you're requesting - and you can't 
combine meta_search and Sphinx queries together (one is SQL, the other is 
Sphinx, talking to completely different sources).

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Pat

On 21/07/2011, at 8:54 PM, Ulugbek Baymuradov wrote:

> It's recommended that you save the .search for sphinx only. Also, you don't 
> have to use meta_search, sphinx does filter by attribute, example is given in 
> the documentation. 
> 
> Bek
> 
> On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:40 AM, Ritesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I have a very simple user table with the following fields:
>> 
>> 1. Name
>> 2. Date of Birth
>> 3. Sex
>> 4. Location
>> 5. Latitude
>> 6. Longitude
>> 
>> 
>> Now I want to find out all the male users whose age is in between 20
>> to 50 and are within 50 miles of a given coordinate. To filter by sex
>> and age, I plan to use meta_search but to filter by distance I plan to
>> use Sphinx. So it is possible to chain metasearch and thinking sphinx
>> and then do offset nad limit. I am thinking of something like this:
>> 
>> User.search({"sex_eq" => 'M', "dob_gte" => 2011-..., "dob_lte" =>
>> 2011-01-01"}).sphinx_search("", :geodist => [@lat, @lng], :order =>
>> "@geodist...).page(1).per(10)
>> 
>> 
>> Ritesh
>> 
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