Nil's representation in the index?

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How are ruby nil values represented in the index?

Thanks,
John

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 06:34:15PM -0400, John B. wrote:

How are ruby nil values represented in the index?

not at all, I guess. Ferret works on strings, and it makes no sense to
store an empty string in the index.

cheers,
Jens

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On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:33 AM, Jens K. wrote:

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 06:34:15PM -0400, John B. wrote:

How are ruby nil values represented in the index?

not at all, I guess. Ferret works on strings, and it makes no sense to
store an empty string in the index.

I am trying to query for objects that match certain terms in field A,
and field B = nil in the model. (The column is untokenized)

John

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:20:50AM -0400, John Joseph B. wrote:

I am trying to query for objects that match certain terms in field A,
and field B = nil in the model. (The column is untokenized)

I think the only way to achieve this is to epresent the nil with some
non-nil value in the index (‘NIL’ or something like this) so you can
search for it.

Jens

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On Mar 31, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Jens K. wrote:

I am trying to query for objects that match certain terms in field A,
and field B = nil in the model. (The column is untokenized)

I think the only way to achieve this is to epresent the nil with some
non-nil value in the index (‘NIL’ or something like this) so you can
search for it.

That’s precisely what I ended up doing. :slight_smile: Thanks.