Can't search fields with space

[yaxm]

Hi,
I have a user model that has a city field which is searchable using
acts_as_ferret.

But I can’t get it to return any result whether I use
:city => {:store => :no, :index => :untokenized},
or
:city => {:store => :no} in my User model’s acts_as_ferret option

User.find_by_contents(“city:(cal poly)”)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e62608 @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

User.find_by_contents(“city:(‘cal poly’)”)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e5aae8 @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

User.find_by_contents(“city:(‘cal\ poly’)”)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e566a0 @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

User.find_by_contents(‘city:(“cal\ poly”)’)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e51a9c @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

User.find_by_contents(‘city:(“cal poly”)’)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e4f148 @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

Please advise.
Yaxm

[yaxm]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:11:33AM +0200, Yaxm Y. wrote:

=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e62608 @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

User.find_by_contents(“city:(‘cal poly’)”)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e5aae8 @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

User.find_by_contents(“city:(‘cal\ poly’)”)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e566a0 @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

User.find_by_contents(‘city:(“cal\ poly”)’)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e51a9c @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

User.find_by_contents(‘city:(“cal poly”)’)
=> #<ActsAsFerret::SearchResults:0x4e4f148 @total_hits=0, @results=[]>

you can use

User.aaf_index.process_query ‘city:(“cal poly”)’

to see how your query strings get parsed. Most likely that will show you
quite easily why you don’t get the results you expect.

Please also note that after changing the actsasferret options you have
to rebuild the index to get correct results.

Jens

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