Ruby Forum Ferret > search two related tables

Hi, It would be trulely appreciated if anyone can give me some advise on
this.
I have two related tables titles and authors. Using acts_as_ferret, I
can search by title name. However, when search by author name or ausname
in this case, I only get "sorry, found 0 item".

class Title < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_ferret :additional_fields => [:author_name]
  belongs_to :author

  def author_name
    return author.ausname
  end
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class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :titles
end
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def search
    if params[:q]
      query = params[:q]
      @titles = Title.find_by_contents(query)
      unless @titles.size > 0
     flash.now[:notice_not_found] = "Sorry, found 0 item"
    end
    render :action => 'search_result'
    end
end

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:25:49PM +0200, Katsuo Isono wrote:
> Hi, It would be trulely appreciated if anyone can give me some advise on
> this.
> I have two related tables titles and authors. Using acts_as_ferret, I
> can search by title name. However, when search by author name or ausname
> in this case, I only get "sorry, found 0 item".

Did you have a look at your log files? Maybe author is nil when
acts_as_ferret calls the author_name method. Aaf logs every field and
value it adds to the index so you should pretty easily find out what's
going on.

Cheers,
Jens


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