I would recommend taking the following approach:
* Change the attribute to use the category ids instead of names.
* In non-Ad classes, add the following attribute:
has '0', :as => :category_ids, :facet => true, :type => :multi
* And then in your search calls, match on both the category id you're after,
and 0:
category = Category.find_by_name('auto')
ThinkingSphinx.search 'red car',
:with => {:category_ids => [0, category.id]},
:classes => [Ad, User]
That should do the trick.
Cheers
--
Pat
On 29/11/2012, at 4:47 AM, Well Done Steak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have about 9 models (more coming soon) which currently have both common &
> unique sphinx attributes in each - these attributes are used as filters &
> don't need to be searchable.
>
> Here is an example of some of my models which illustrates the problem:
>
> class Ad
> belongs_to :categories
>
> define_index('ad') do
> has categories.name, :as => :category_name_tags, :facet => true, :type =>
> :string
> end
> end
>
> class User
> belongs_to :region
> define_index('ad') do
> #psudocode below
> has "(SELECT name from categories)", :as => :category_name_tags, :facet
> => true, :type => :string
> end
> end
>
> So that I can search like this:
>
> results = ThinkingSphinx.search "red car", :with => { :category_name_tags =>
> "autos" }, :classes => [Ad, User]
>
> All my non-Ad models need to have an "category_name_tags" attribute defined
> which will match any "category_name_tags" filters the user specifies when
> searching - in other-words these are dummy attributes that should always
> match all certain filters - they are passive for most models, I want to do
> this because if these attributes do not exist in my model, then no results
> from that model will be returned.
>
> Note: I cannot modify the data model used by the client.
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Thinking Sphinx" group.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/thinking-sphinx/-/irULT959k9AJ.
> 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.
