Hi, Everything you've described so far is quite possible with TS. I'm doing something quite similar at the moment and TS is handling the STI situation fine.
After you define your index on Magazine, you can do any of the following: Magazine.search(phrase) # Searches both kinds of magazines DigitalMag.search(phrase) # Searches only digital mags PaperMag.search(phrase) # Searches only paper mags ThinkingSphinx.search(phrase) # Searches all of your indexed models ThinkingSphinx.search(phrase, :classes => [DigitalMag, PaperMag]) -T- On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 17:39, cec <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm writing a small rails3 apps ecosystem at work and I'm already > using TS on some of them. > > For the app I am working on now, I have to manage a catalog of both > digital and paper magazines. > The two share various fields, but at the same time they quite differ > in various logic aspects. > These are the models I would use: > > Magazine < AR:Base > DigitalMag < Magazine > PaperMag < Magazine > > Users need to be able to search for digitals, paperMags or both. > > The columns that have to be searched on are shared between the two > kinds of magazines, so I would define only an index in Magazine, > hoping that its children "inherit" the index. > Is it possible to do so with TS at the moment? > > I know this is all trivial stuff, but I think it is always better to > be exhaustive when describing one's needs. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thinking Sphinx" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en.
