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

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :titles
end

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 I. 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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