Hi Ritesh

The date column will need to be an attribute - and then range filters will work 
fine:
http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/searching.html#filters

-- 
Pat

On 21/07/2011, at 11:35 PM, Ritesh wrote:

> Hi Ulugbek and Pat,
> Thanks for your suggestion. But can sphinx do filtering for date
> range. Since one of the filter parameter is age range which is
> converted to date range, can I give that to sphinx. I didn't see range
> filtering in documentation. Can you please point it to me
> 
> Ritesh
> 
> On Jul 21, 4:56 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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).
>> 
>> --
>> 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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