I have a problem, and I think it’s because stop word analysis isn’t
happenning in the queries. I think it’s the way ferret is doing things
that’s causing this bug. Let’s say I’m searching across documents with
a title. And I have a document with a title of “Bash Guide for
Beginners”. If a user types in the query:
Bash Guide for Beginners
No quotes. I get no hits. But if I drop the “for” ferret finds it.
Then say I type a quoted query like “Bash Guide for Beginners” ferret
finds it. So I tried all of this from a rails app, and I thought maybe
acts_as_ferret was doing something with the query to cause the “for”
word to stay in the query. But, I then opened up a script/console and
fetched the ferret index directly like:
findex = MyModel.ferret_index
findex.search(“Bash Guide for Beginners”)
And nothing came up. I tried all three queries, full title no quotes,
full title minus “for”, and quoted query with the same results as above.
So now I think it might be a problem with ferret. My theory is maybe
the stop word analysis isn’t taking place when I submit queries. That’s
my theory at least. Any ideas?
Charlie
On 10/17/06, Charlie H. [email protected] wrote:
Then say I type a quoted query like “Bash Guide for Beginners” ferret
So now I think it might be a problem with ferret. My theory is maybe
the stop word analysis isn’t taking place when I submit queries. That’s
my theory at least. Any ideas?
Charlie
Hi Charlie,
I’m afraid I can’t reproduce the problem here. So unless someone else
can help you I see you have two options. Try reproducing the problem
with a small script like this:
require 'rubygems'
require 'ferret'
index = Ferret::I.new(:or_default => false)
index << "Bash Guide for Beginners"
puts index.search('Bash Guide for Beginners')
index.close
Or you could send me the index off-list and I’ll have a look at it here.
Cheers,
Dave
Ok thanks for looking into. I’m going to try and reproduce it with
plain ferret, if not I’ll send you the index.
Charlie
David B. wrote:
On 10/17/06, Charlie H. [email protected] wrote:
Then say I type a quoted query like “Bash Guide for Beginners” ferret
So now I think it might be a problem with ferret. My theory is maybe
the stop word analysis isn’t taking place when I submit queries. That’s
my theory at least. Any ideas?
Charlie
Hi Charlie,
I’m afraid I can’t reproduce the problem here. So unless someone else
can help you I see you have two options. Try reproducing the problem
with a small script like this:
require 'rubygems'
require 'ferret'
index = Ferret::I.new(:or_default => false)
index << "Bash Guide for Beginners"
puts index.search('Bash Guide for Beginners')
index.close
Or you could send me the index off-list and I’ll have a look at it here.
Cheers,
Dave