Ferret talk - May 2007 - how to update index with acts_as_ferret?

Hey all,
I have movie has_many :medias and media belongs_to :media

this is how my movie class looks like:

class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :medias

acts_as_ferret :fields => [:title,:medias_name]

def medias_name
return self.medias.inject("") {|name,m| name + " " + 
m.name}
end

end

when I do Movie.find_by_contents("title:bob") it does return a movie
and if I modify that movie title to Bill and do
Movie.find_by_contents("title:bill") it will return the movie also.

But if I create a new media xyz and try to search on it
Movie.find_by_contents("medias_name:xyz")  it doesn''t find
it, I need
to rm -rf index/ and restart the server to make it find it. Any idea
how I can update the index on special fields?

thanx in advance

Pat

Hi!

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:27:35AM +0200, Patrick Aljord
wrote:
> Hey all,
> I have movie has_many :medias and media belongs_to :media
> 
> this is how my movie class looks like:
> 
> class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base
> has_many :medias
> 
> acts_as_ferret :fields => [:title,:medias_name]
> 
> def medias_name
> return self.medias.inject("") {|name,m| name + " " + 
m.name}
> end
> 
> end
> 
> when I do Movie.find_by_contents("title:bob") it does return a
movie
> and if I modify that movie title to Bill and do
> Movie.find_by_contents("title:bill") it will return the movie
also.
> 
> But if I create a new media xyz and try to search on it
> Movie.find_by_contents("medias_name:xyz")  it doesn''t
find it, I need
> to rm -rf index/ and restart the server to make it find it. Any idea
> how I can update the index on special fields?
you can''t update single fields, you havbe to reindex that movie to
reflect the changes. An after_save hook in media calling
movie.ferret_update should do the trick.

Jens

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