Ferret talk - Mar 2006 - Fuzzy searching using act_as_ferret

Hello,

My Ferret integration has gone quite well. I''m now returning all the 
results I need from two models using "id_multi_search" and combining
the
results in the view using a couple of partials.

Is there any way that I can turn on fuzzy searching?

Would fuzzy searching pick up basic spelling mistakes such as "Bnadit"
instead of "Bandit" my experience with search technology is quite 
limited.

Cheers
Tom, Nottingham UK

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Tom,

It depends on how you build your query.
Textually, the syntax is: +(body:word~0.5) if you want to search for 
''word'' in field ''body''.

A more advanced way would to parse your query and then build manually 
your ferret query. See 
http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Search/FuzzyQuery.html 
for more help.

Jean-Etienne

Tom Styles wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My Ferret integration has gone quite well. I''m now returning all
the
> results I need from two models using "id_multi_search" and
combining the
> results in the view using a couple of partials.
> 
> Is there any way that I can turn on fuzzy searching?
> 
> Would fuzzy searching pick up basic spelling mistakes such as
"Bnadit"
> instead of "Bandit" my experience with search technology is quite
> limited.
> 
> Cheers
> Tom, Nottingham UK
>