Ferret talk - Nov 2007 - problem with searching plurals (with apostrophe)

hello guys,

i am using acts_as_ferret plugin(0.4.1 Latest) with ferret gem(0.11.4 Latest)
on rails 1.2.5 and ruby 1.8.6(UBUNTU Gutsy)
i have this
  :Stores Model
   acts_as_ferret :fields => {:name   => { :boost => 2 ,:store =>
:yes},
                             :short_desc   => { :boost => 1.5,:store =>
  :yes },
                             :tag_list => {:boost => 1 },
                             :name_for_sort => {:index => :untokenized}
                            }

  and i search using this code in my Stores controller

  @products = Store.find_by_contents params[:q].to_s.upcase+"*"

  for e.g i have a Stores with name as 
  "benhank''s coffee outlet"  

  when i search for "benhank" i get the resultant store as expected.
  but when i search with param as "benhank''s" or
"benhanks" ---
  i dont get anyresults.
  atleast i shud have got the result for search with
"benhank''s"
  which is actually what is entered in :name field

  how can i get this done. pls help
  i have been trying to understand to use the analysers and tokenisers
  but couldn''t get through.also looking at wildcardquery and fuzzy
things

 thanks
 jags
      
  



     
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Hi,

your problem is pretty much analyzers and tokenization related, so you
really should understand what happens there.

Tried the Ferret short cut pdf book from o''reilly?

In general you''ll need a stemming analyzer to strip plural endings from
words. Regarding the "''" - it''s a question of the
tokenizer you''re using
whether the ''s ending is considered to be part of the word it follows,
or ''s'' is interpreted as a term of it''s own.


Cheers,
Jens


On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:56:12PM -0800, Jagdish rao
wrote:
> 
>       
>         hello guys,
> 
> i am using acts_as_ferret plugin(0.4.1 Latest) with ferret gem(0.11.4
Latest)
> on rails 1.2.5 and ruby 1.8.6(UBUNTU Gutsy)
> i have this
>   :Stores Model
>    acts_as_ferret :fields => {:name   => { :boost => 2 ,:store
=> :yes},
>                              :short_desc   => { :boost => 1.5,:store
=>
>   :yes },
>                              :tag_list => {:boost => 1 },
>                              :name_for_sort => {:index =>
:untokenized}
>                             }
> 
>   and i search using this code in my Stores controller
> 
>   @products = Store.find_by_contents params[:q].to_s.upcase+"*"
> 
>   for e.g i have a Stores with name as 
>   "benhank''s coffee outlet"  
> 
>   when i search for "benhank" i get the resultant store as
expected.
>   but when i search with param as "benhank''s" or
"benhanks" ---
>   i dont get anyresults.
>   atleast i shud have got the result for search with
"benhank''s"
>   which is actually what is entered in :name field
> 
>   how can i get this done. pls help
>   i have been trying to understand to use the analysers and tokenisers
>   but couldn''t get through.also looking at wildcardquery and fuzzy
things
> 
>  thanks
>  jags
>       
>   
> 
> 
> 
>      
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