Comments on: Our first plugin: acts_as_fulltextable

By: bdawg

bdawg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:10:23 +0000

Any word on anyone getting this to work with mislavwillpaginate?

By: john

john — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:43:13 +0000

This is very interesting siteb

By: Ryan L

Ryan L — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:51:56 +0000

Hey again, still having trouble installing. Not sure what i am doing wrong.

i add actsasfulltextable :fields… to each model, generate the migration with the models, but when i rake, it always aborts.

I tried replacing the :fields with :name, :description, …. but it didn’t like that either.

Any suggestions for install?

By: Ryan L

Ryan L — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:03:10 +0000

Hey there, a friend recommended this plugin and i have been trying to install. I added actsasfulltexable to my models, but when i try to rake the migration, i get this error:

undefined method `fields’ for #

also, when trying to search multi models, where do you put the multi model search?

By: Brian Law

Brian Law — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:01:37 +0000

I am a newbie at rails, just looking to see if you had any suggestions as to how I would hook this search into one model (Tape) and the def for the controller and the code for the search form. Any help appreciated

By: Jam

Jam — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:28:30 +0000

Hi!

I’m having a problem with will_paginate…

I get this error:

undefined method `total_pages’

Can anyone give me a hand with this one?

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:38:50 +0000

@ Starfry: the problem is first is a stopword, thus it’s not being indexed. You can see a complete list of stopwords on MySQL’s website. :)

By: starfry

starfry — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:35:26 +0000

Here’s a weird one. Hopefully it is me doing something silly, but…

If I have the word “first” or any part thereof in the fulltext_rows “value” and then search on “first” or any substring (e.g. “fi”, “fir”), nothing is found.

I have tried the SQL directly (copying from the rails log file):

mysql> SELECT fulltextrows.*, match(value) against(’fir*’ in boolean mode) AS relevancy FROM fulltext_rows WHERE (match(value) against(’fir*’ in boolean mode) AND fulltextabletype IN (’Item’)) ORDER BY relevancy DESC, value ASC LIMIT 0, 30;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select count() from fulltext_rows where value like “%fir%”;
+———-+
| count() |
+———-+
| 3 |
+———-+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

It only seems to be around the word “first” or a substring of “first”. If the word is “firsh” the search works fine. I wonder if it is to do with “first” being a reserved word somewhere.

Wierd. Any ideas?

(I’d raise as a bug but it may just be me being silly)

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:35:49 +0000

@ starfry: You can open a bug on our bug tracker and attach a diff to it. Thanks for helping! :)

By: starfry

starfry — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:27:18 +0000

Michele,

I have written a patch to actsasfulltextable that allows specification of “conditions” that can be used to determine whether a record is included in fulltextable search.

I also have the patch for willpaginage perpage.

What’s the best way to send these to you?

Thanks,
John