Ferret talk - Jun 2007 - globalize+acts_as_ferret

Hey all,
I''m using acts_as_ferret and globalize. I stumbled upon that post on
google:
http://osdir.com/ml/lang.ruby.ferret.general/2007-01/msg00068.html

does anybody know if it''s included in the latest a_a_f or if
it''s
planed to be? I can''t seem to find anything about it.

thanx in advance

Pat

Hi!

Saimon sent me a patch for this, but unfortunately I didn''t find the
time to integrate it back then. Afair he added an option that made aaf 
use per-language index directories, depending on the language currently 
set in globalize. 

Now that I think of it, that might not always be what people want - i.e.
you lose the possibility to easily search across multiple languages.
Imho it would be sufficient to store the language of a record in a
field, and use that for filtering by language when needed. More
important is to use an analyzer that can handle the different
languages.

What exactly would you want to do with globalize and aaf?

Anyway, since aaf has undergone some serious refactoring since then the
patch won''t work anymore, but I uploaded the archive containing
Saimon''s
version of aaf with the patch applied, and his patch to the Wiki. Find
it at http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/wiki at the bottom of
the page.


cheers,
Jens


On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Patrick Aljord
wrote:
> Hey all,
> I''m using acts_as_ferret and globalize. I stumbled upon that post
on google:
> http://osdir.com/ml/lang.ruby.ferret.general/2007-01/msg00068.html
> 
> does anybody know if it''s included in the latest a_a_f or if
it''s
> planed to be? I can''t seem to find anything about it.
> 
> thanx in advance
> 
> Pat
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Hey Jens,
Thanks for the link.
> What exactly would you want to do with globalize and aaf?
I have something like this:
class Shooting < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_ferret :fields => [:media_name,:media_name_es,:media_name_fr]

  def media_name
    return self.media.name
  end
def media_name_fr
    return self.media.name_fr
  end
def media_name_es
    return self.media.name_es
  end
end

is there a better way to handle this?

Thanks in advance

Pat

On 2007-06-07, at 4:45 PM, Patrick Aljord wrote:
> Hey Jens,
> Thanks for the link.
>
>> What exactly would you want to do with globalize and aaf?
>
> I have something like this:
> class Shooting < ActiveRecord::Base
> acts_as_ferret :fields => [:media_name,:media_name_es,:media_name_fr]
thats how i store language-specific fields as well .. i got something  
like
:title_de, :title_en and :content_de, :content_en

Ben

On 6/7/07, Benjamin Krause <bk at benjaminkrause.com>
wrote:
> thats how i store language-specific fields as well .. i got something
> like
> :title_de, :title_en and :content_de, :content_en
>
ok, thanx for the info Ben.