Ferret talk - Sep 2007 - Highlighting isue in description

I have read the highlighting section at
http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial#highlighting

It mentions that for highlight to work I must have {:store => :yes}.
However it also mentions that only "small" fields should be stored.

My question is how small is small enough.

I have a site where events information is maintained. I have events
title and events description. On an average the description is of 60
words and around 300 characters.

When search is performed I want to display the excerpt of description in
highlighted fashion. For that to work I need to {:store => :yes} the
description field.


What is the recommended practice. How others are displaying the
description highlight. I am leaning towards storing the whole
description. Is 60 words too many words?
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Raj Singh
wrote:
> I have read the highlighting section at
> http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial#highlighting
> 
> It mentions that for highlight to work I must have {:store => :yes}.
> However it also mentions that only "small" fields should be
stored.
> 
> My question is how small is small enough.
that depends on how large you want your index to grow, and how long the
indexing may take ;-)
> I have a site where events information is maintained. I have events
> title and events description. On an average the description is of 60
> words and around 300 characters.
That shouldn''t be a problem. To save space with large field contents
you
may also use :store => :compressed, however with 300 characters that
shouldn''t be necessary.

Jens


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