Ferret talk - Mar 2009 - Are document boost and sort incompatible?

I am using document boosting (following Jens'' suggestion here:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/84358) but am also trying to sort the
returned results, so I was using the :sort option.  In my testing, using
a wildcard search, it appears that using the :sort option causes Ferret
to ignore document boosts and just return the first N hits it finds by
looking alphabetically.  Is that the expected behavior?  If I want the N
most relevant documents, do I need to sort them myself after getting
them from Ferret?

Thanks,
  --Paul
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Hi Paul,

I think your assumption is correct - Ferret by default sorts by score,  
and by specifying an alternative sorting you replace that default  
sorting with something else.

Cheers,
Jens


On 10.03.2009, at 18:28, Paul Lynch wrote:
> I am using document boosting (following Jens'' suggestion here:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/84358) but am also trying to sort the
> returned results, so I was using the :sort option.  In my testing,  
> using
> a wildcard search, it appears that using the :sort option causes  
> Ferret
> to ignore document boosts and just return the first N hits it finds by
> looking alphabetically.  Is that the expected behavior?  If I want  
> the N
> most relevant documents, do I need to sort them myself after getting
> them from Ferret?
>
> Thanks,
>  --Paul
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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