Tamim,
I must admit I am not a Ferret/Lucene expert by any means but I will share
my little knowledge if it helps you. I''m using ferret and the plugin
and I
must say that it makes things really easy if you have simple requirements.
The project I am working on is more complex than "simple requirements"
but
after a lot of digging in the code I have figured almost all the things that
I need. Check the code for the plugin and for ferret and you will see that
you can modify the analyzers/tokenizers (how you analyze a query and how you
separate the query into words). For example, the standard query looks for
non-alphanumeric characters to separate words. So "Fate/Hollow" would
be
recognized as two separate words. Also I think you might have misspelled
your example when you searched for "Scopego" and your product is named
"Scopedog". I must say, though, that if you searched for
"Scopedo" it would
not find anything but if you searched for "Scopedo*" it should find
your
product. I''m still a ways to go on my project but so far I have been
pleased
greatly with ferret. My only concern is that there have been a few segfaults
here and there but the developer tells me that things like that will get
ironed out by the stable release.
Hope this helps a bit,
Adrian Madrid
On 8/21/06, Tamim Azizadah <taz-TOmwmVgPDaxWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
>
> I recently installed ferret and the acts_as_ferret plugin but I''m
> getting results that I just don''t understand. The model
I''m using is for
> products. The table contains fields ''name'',
''description'', ''sku'',
> ''model''. This is what I have put in my model:
>
> acts_as_ferret :fields => { :sku => {}, :model => {},
''name'' => { :boost
> => 2, :store => Ferret::Document::Field::Store::YES },
''description'' =>
> { :boost => 1.5, :store => Ferret::Document::Field::Store::YES } },
> :store_class_name => true
>
> I have a couple of products called:
> product 1: Armored Troopers Votoms Red Scopedog EX-01 Action Figure
> product 2: Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Sakura Matou Grocery Shopping PVC Statue
>
> If I search for ''Armored'', it comes back correctly with
product 1.
> If I search for ''Votoms'', it comes back with NOTHING
> If I search for ''figure'', it comes back with product 1
> If I search for ''Scopego'', it comes back with NOTHING
>
> Similarly:
>
> If I search for ''fate'', it comes back with product 2
> If I search for ''shopping'' it comes back with NOTHING
> If I search for ''statue'' it comes back with product 2
>
> I''m really not getting the logic with why it''s doing
that. It seems like
> it''s catching words that are in the beginning and near the end of
the
> product names, but not the middle. I''m not really familiar with
how
> ferret''s search algorithm works, but I''m assuming (yes,
not a good
> idea!) that it searches the entire product name.
>
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Tamim
>
>
>
>
>
> >
>
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