Forum: Ferret acts_as_ferret - need to remove markup from column first

We're using acts_as_ferret on a column called 'body' which normally has
html markup in it.  We want to continue to store the markup in our
database, but we want to remove the markup from that field before Ferret
indexes it.  We're thinking there would be an option to intercept the
value that Ferret is indexing, for pre-processing, but we can't find it.

So we either need to know how Ferret might support this requirement, or,
we think we can skip the acts_as_ferret altogether and manually call
LocalIndex.add or something like that and therefore have more control
over what's being indexed.

Thanks.

Hi!

add a 'virtual field' to your index that contains the value without 
markup, i.e.

class YourModel
  acts_as_ferret :fields => [ ;title, :body_searchable ]

  def body_searchable
    strip_markup(self.body)
  end
end


Cheers,
Jens

Gaudi Mi wrote:
> We're using acts_as_ferret on a column called 'body' which normally has
> html markup in it.  We want to continue to store the markup in our
> database, but we want to remove the markup from that field before Ferret
> indexes it.  We're thinking there would be an option to intercept the
> value that Ferret is indexing, for pre-processing, but we can't find it.
> 
> So we either need to know how Ferret might support this requirement, or,
> we think we can skip the acts_as_ferret altogether and manually call
> LocalIndex.add or something like that and therefore have more control
> over what's being indexed.
> 
> Thanks.