Ferret talk - Aug 2007 - Filtering out low scoring matches with acts_as_ferret (fwd)

Hi all,

I''m using fuzzy~ queries which can return very poor matches.  What is
the
most elegant way to filter out scores below some threshold? I know that I 
can do my own thing with find_id_by_contents but I''d like to filter out
less relevant results at a lower level so that I can use :limit/:offset 
for pagination and all that.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Casey

On 08.08.2007, at 19:36, Casey Forbes wrote:
> I''m using fuzzy~ queries which can return very poor matches.  What
> is the
> most elegant way to filter out scores below some threshold? I know  
> that I
> can do my own thing with find_id_by_contents but I''d like to
filter
> out
> less relevant results at a lower level so that I can  
> use :limit/:offset
> for pagination and all that.
>
> What am I missing?
You can specify a fuzziness factor after the ~. A higher factor will  
reduce fuzziness and thus return less but more accurate results.

Example:

fuzzy~0.8

Cheers,
Andy