Pat -

Thanks so much! That worked great. I also noticed that in Rails 3
calling :touch on an object does not trigger a delta index. Is that by
design or should :touch trigger delta indexing?

Greg

On Nov 18, 9:29 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Greg
>
> I think the best approach is what you're hinting at in your final screenshot 
> - a complex piece of SQL code that grabs the ids you need. You could look at 
> your space_ids attribute for an example, and you can use the join method in 
> your define_index block to force joins on associations that you're not using 
> in any fields or attributes - although given you've got space_ids, I guess 
> all the tables are referenced already.
>
> If you're using MySQL, then an IF(manuals.draft = 0 AND sections.hidden = 0, 
> spaces.id, 0) statement might do the trick (wrapped up in the standard concat 
> statements)… PostgreSQL doesn't have an IF method, but you can get the same 
> thing happening with a CASE statement instead.
>
> Is that enough help? If you get stuck, let me know.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 16/11/2011, at 10:45 PM, Greg DeVore wrote:
>
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>
>
>
>
> > We are in the process of upgrading from Rails 2.3 to 3.x. We have been
> > using TS for awhile but had to hack it a bit to make it do delta
> > indexing on some complex joins we were doing. As we upgrade to Rails 3
> > we want to make this "out of the box" with the current version of TS
> > without having to hack up our own version. I am just not sure about
> > the best way to setup the "has" index for the MVA value we want to
> > index.
>
> > Here are some screenshots that show what we are trying to do:
>
> >http://gdevore.clarify-it.com/d/qz6ale
>
> > Basically I have a Lesson model that I need to add
> > a :published_space_ids MVA to. The scope to get the
> > published_spaces_ids for a lesson looks like this:
>
> > Space.joins(:manuals => {:sections
> > => :readings}).where('readings.lesson_id = ?',
> > self.id).where('manuals.draft = ? AND sections.hidden = ?', false,
> > false)
>
> > I am not sure how to add this to the sphinx index for the Lesson
> > model.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Greg
>
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