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Hi Experts,

I’ve Model Called Categories. Id and name column
and another model called contacts which has id, name, address, phone,
city, location, neighbourhood and lanmark.

i’ve implemeneted ferret. (it isnt a problem)

in model for categories and contacts
acts_as_ferret :remote => true

my question is

if i pass a value like this on controller

value = “%jewellary%”
@categories = Category.find_by_contents(value)
@contacts = Contact.find_by_contents(value)

I can get datas from categories. which i’ve already.

but if i pass value as
value = “%je%”
@categories = Category.find_by_contents(value)
@contacts = Contact.find_by_contents(value)

i dont get any datas displayed.

as far as i understood that ferret searches for whole string like
jewellary.

is there a way to by pass the search?

Thanks in Advance.

regards,
Bala

yes…you can do Contact.find_by_sql([‘SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE
contents LIKE ?’, ‘%’+je+‘%’])

I think I may be a little out on the syntax…you can check it here:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/ look for “find_by_sql” under “Methods”

Phil T. wrote:

yes…you can do Contact.find_by_sql([‘SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE
contents LIKE ?’, ‘%’+je+‘%’])

I think I may be a little out on the syntax…you can check it here:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/ look for “find_by_sql” under “Methods”

Actually I think those single quotes should be double quotes, not sure
if it makes a difference so that should be :
Contact.find_by_sql([“SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE
contents LIKE ?”, “%”+je+“%”])

Also if you want to search for multiple search terms you use question
marks in the SQL and declare all the variables at the end like this:

…[“SELECT * FROM tablname WHERE column 1 = ? AND column2 LIKE ? AND
column3 = ?”, @variable1, “%”+@variable2+“%”, @variable3]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the reply,

but if i could use find_by_sql then whats the use of Ferret?

Bala

On Jan 23, 1:34 am, Phil T. [email protected]

Bala, depending on how big your ferret index is, destroy it and then
recreate it as it might be a problem in that. I ran into a similar
problem
about a month ago and I seem to recall that’s how I fixed it.

On Jan 23, 2008 7:38 AM, Phil T. [email protected]
wrote:

ermmm good point! I wish I’d realised that earlier, might have saved me
a bit of time…

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ermmm good point! I wish I’d realised that earlier, might have saved me
a bit of time…

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the reply, you meant to say destroy the ferret plugin or
the index?

regards,
Bala

Bala wrote:

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the reply, you meant to say destroy the ferret plugin or
the index?

regards,
Bala

the index

Thanks Phil

On Jan 23, 2:42 pm, Phil T. [email protected]

Phil and Ryan,

Thanks for the reply.

i got the answer just i replaced “%” to “*”

value = value.gsub("%", “*”)
categories = Category.find_by_contents(value)

its working perfectly.

Thanks for the effort Guys. :slight_smile:

regards,
Bala