Rails - Aug 2006 - Linking to the paginated items from search results.

Using Ferret for searching, I''ve got results that I need to link to. 
Which is fine, except for that they''re displayed on paginated pages 
using Rails paginate function - so it''s not like I can''t get
it from the
database or anything else. Anyone have any ideas on how to go about 
this? It''s not so much a coding problem as a theory problem, and I
can''t
even think of how to begin. Thanks in advance!

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I think there are really only two options:

1) Store the search results in the session.

2) Use ferret''s :num_docs and :first_doc to paginate the results for
each page.  NOTE: These options are going to change to :limit and
:offset to be more railish in a future ferret release.

I am currently doing option 2 on my site.  However, I asked a similar
question to this group a while back and one of the interesting points
someone made was that when you search through results it can be
annoying if they shift around, so in that case option 1 would be
preferred.

Good Luck,
Tom

On 8/2/06, Adrian Fraiha <fraiha@charter.net>
wrote:
> Using Ferret for searching, I''ve got results that I need to link
to.
> Which is fine, except for that they''re displayed on paginated
pages
> using Rails paginate function - so it''s not like I can''t
get it from the
> database or anything else. Anyone have any ideas on how to go about
> this? It''s not so much a coding problem as a theory problem, and I
can''t
> even think of how to begin. Thanks in advance!
>
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On 8/3/06, Tom Davies <atomgiant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think there are really only two options:
>
> 1) Store the search results in the session.
>
> 2) Use ferret''s :num_docs and :first_doc to paginate the results
for
> each page.  NOTE: These options are going to change to :limit and
> :offset to be more railish in a future ferret release.
>
> I am currently doing option 2 on my site.  However, I asked a similar
> question to this group a while back and one of the interesting points
> someone made was that when you search through results it can be
> annoying if they shift around, so in that case option 1 would be
> preferred.
>
> Good Luck,
> Tom
Hi Tom,

Just curious. What do you mean when you say the results shift around?
Is this something I need to fix in Ferret?

Cheers,
Dave

Hi Dave,

Actually, I meant if you rerun the query between page requests and the
index changes then your search results may legitimately be different.

For example if someone is sorting on created_at DESC and any entries
get added in between pages then some of thre results that were just
show on say page 1 will now be in page 2 since those new entries will
be returned as well.

If that doesn''t make sense, let me know and I''ll try again. 
For some
reason I found it very difficult to type that out in words :)

Tom


On 8/2/06, David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 8/3/06, Tom Davies <atomgiant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think there are really only two options:
> >
> > 1) Store the search results in the session.
> >
> > 2) Use ferret''s :num_docs and :first_doc to paginate the
results for
> > each page.  NOTE: These options are going to change to :limit and
> > :offset to be more railish in a future ferret release.
> >
> > I am currently doing option 2 on my site.  However, I asked a similar
> > question to this group a while back and one of the interesting points
> > someone made was that when you search through results it can be
> > annoying if they shift around, so in that case option 1 would be
> > preferred.
> >
> > Good Luck,
> > Tom
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Just curious. What do you mean when you say the results shift around?
> Is this something I need to fix in Ferret?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
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On 8/4/06, Tom Davies <atomgiant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Actually, I meant if you rerun the query between page requests and the
> index changes then your search results may legitimately be different.
>
> For example if someone is sorting on created_at DESC and any entries
> get added in between pages then some of thre results that were just
> show on say page 1 will now be in page 2 since those new entries will
> be returned as well.
>
> If that doesn''t make sense, let me know and I''ll try
again.  For some
> reason I found it very difficult to type that out in words :)
>
> Tom
Thanks Tom. I understand perfectly.