# Two Shared Indices(sp?) in aaf.rb file (for Acts\_as\_ferret) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ferret\ **Created:** [February 1, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-shared-indices-sp-in-aaf-rb-file-for-acts-as-ferret/159164 "2009-02-01T18:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Philip_Ingram)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-shared-indices-sp-in-aaf-rb-file-for-acts-as-ferret/159164/1 "2009-02-01T18:19:48Z")
Hi all, I’m trying to add two shared indices to the aaf.rb file, however it is not working. I currently have one shared index, but that index has a condition on it, and i’m not sure how to go about creating another index without this condition in it for my forum, which i want to search only the forum, topics and messages. Within aaf.rb i tried to comma separate thecode: eg.g ActsAsFerret::define\_index (‘one’…), ActsAsFerret::define\_index (‘two’…) To no avail. I also tried to add another aaf2.rb file to the original call when aaf.rb, and include both of these files when aaf.rb is loaded but no dice either. thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Philip_Ingram)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-shared-indices-sp-in-aaf-rb-file-for-acts-as-ferret/159164/2 "2009-02-01T21:03:14Z")
Hi, I’m not sure if this is what you’re trying, but having the same model belong to two or more index is impossible with acts\_as\_ferret. Cheers, Jens On 01.02.2009, at 16:49, Philip Ingram wrote: > ActsAsFerret::define\_index (‘one’…), ActsAsFerret::define\_index > Ferret-talk mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk) – Jens Krämer webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH Schnorrstraße 76 | 01069 Dresden Telefon +49351467660 | Telefax +493514676666 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | [www.webit.de](http://www.webit.de) Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422 GF Sven Haubold ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Philip_Ingram)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-shared-indices-sp-in-aaf-rb-file-for-acts-as-ferret/159164/3 "2009-02-01T22:15:02Z")
Hi Jens, No, but i didn’t know that either, so thank you. What i’m trying is to do the following, All of this code below is in aaf.rb (hopefully the formatting shows up in this email). ActsAsFerret::define\_index(‘site\_index’, :models =\> { Product =\> {:fields =\> [:name, :company]}, Post =\> {:fields =\> [:title, :body]}, Prategory =\> {:fields =\> [:name]} }, :ferret =\> { :default\_fields =\> [:name, :company, :title, :body, :name] } ), ActsAsFerret::define\_index(‘forumindex’, :models =\> { Topics =\> {:fields =\> [:title]}, Messages =\> {:fields =\> [:title, :content]} }, :ferret =\> { :default\_fields =\> [:title, :title, :content] } ) Now, i get errors when i try to do this, but essentially i want to somehow use ‘site\_Index’ to search those models across all of my site, and only ‘forumindex’ when i put the search fields on the forum. IN my Search\_controller.rb file i have: def search per\_page = 15 @results = ActsAsFerret.find(params[:q], ‘site\_index’, {:page =\> params[:page], :per\_page =\> per\_page}, :conditions =\> [“account\_id = ?”, current\_account.id] ) end def forum per\_page = 30 @results = ActsAsFerret.find(params[:q], ‘forumindex’, {:page =\> params[:page], :per\_page =\> per\_page}) end Notice that i have a condition statement for current\_account’s on site\_index. Am i doing this wrong? Is there a better way to add conditions that i’m unaware of? I do love the benefits of a shared index, but i’m wondering if more then on index can be written at a time? thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Philip_Ingram)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-shared-indices-sp-in-aaf-rb-file-for-acts-as-ferret/159164/4 "2009-02-10T10:46:11Z")
Hi Phillip, basically what you have there should work if you removed the comma (aaf.rb is a standard ruby file, and each define\_index call is just a statement, so a newline or ‘;’ is what you should use for separation of these two calls). If this doesn’t help - what’s the exact error you get (and when - at application startup, when indexing or when searching?) Cheers, Jens On 01.02.2009, at 22:04, Philip Ingram wrote: > Prategory =\> {:fields =\> [:name]} > :ferret =\> { > per\_page = 15 > > > > Hi all, > > > ActsAsFerret::define\_index (‘two’…) > > > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > > Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422 > > > Ferret-talk mailing list > > > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > > [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk) – Jens Krämer Finkenlust 14, 06449 Aschersleben, Germany VAT Id DE251962952 [http://www.jkraemer.net/](http://www.jkraemer.net/) - Blog [http://www.omdb.org/](http://www.omdb.org/) - The new free film database ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Philip_Ingram)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-shared-indices-sp-in-aaf-rb-file-for-acts-as-ferret/159164/5 "2009-02-11T10:58:21Z")
Hi, On 11.02.2009, at 05:11, Philip Ingram wrote: > no comma, worked like a charm. great 🙂 > All the hip kids are using sphinx and there was a rumour out there > that ferret hasn’t been worked on for like 2 years. is that true? > if you want to email me directly, i’m fine with that too, but would > love to hear about the direction of the project, and if it’s not > long term, i might as well go with sphinx, rake tasks and delta > indexes and all… i’m launching a new site where search is going > to be prevalent in it, hence these questions. As you can see on github, the last commit to Ferret’s code base was on Jan 02 this year: [GitHub - dbalmain/ferret: Ferret: the extensible information retrieval library for ruby.](http://github.com/dbalmain/ferret/tree/master) I’m personally using aaf in several projects, among them a knowledge management system where search also is a key part of the application, so I’ll for sure continue maintenance and development of the plugin (as time permits, which in the last few months for sure has been a problem). Patches are always welcome of course. I also plan to do a major rewrite of the whole plugin as soon as possible. Regarding sphinx - while it might be an ok solution for really simple use cases and also might beat aaf regarding re-indexing time, it simply doesn’t suit my needs when it comes to more complex scenarios. Ferret is much more capable regarding supported queries and IR features in general, and aaf’s Rails integration saves you much of the maintenance hassles you mentioned. And you aren’t limited to content stored in the database with Ferret and aaf - I have a project where I crawl static html via rdig and index a product database, and all can be searched at once through a simple search form… Cheers, Jens – Jens Krämer Finkenlust 14, 06449 Aschersleben, Germany VAT Id DE251962952 [http://www.jkraemer.net/](http://www.jkraemer.net/) - Blog [http://www.omdb.org/](http://www.omdb.org/) - The new free film database ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Philip_Ingram)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-shared-indices-sp-in-aaf-rb-file-for-acts-as-ferret/159164/6 "2009-02-11T05:51:05Z")
Thanks Jens, no comma, worked like a charm. i now have two shared indexes in aaf.rb. I’m looking for some reassurance from you and this project. are you still going to maintain it? i’d love to help down the road, if you’d let me of course, as ferret/aaf rebuilds the search index when new items are added, automagically. i’m sure it’s more complicated then that of course, however, i don’t need to run a rake task and try to guess when i should run it, depending on how busy my site is. All the hip kids are using sphinx and there was a rumour out there that ferret hasn’t been worked on for like 2 years. is that true? if you want to email me directly, i’m fine with that too, but would love to hear about the direction of the project, and if it’s not long term, i might as well go with sphinx, rake tasks and delta indexes and all… i’m launching a new site where search is going to be prevalent in it, hence these questions. thanks again jens, keep up the great work. phil ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@Philip\_Ingram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Philip_Ingram)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-shared-indices-sp-in-aaf-rb-file-for-acts-as-ferret/159164/7 "2009-02-24T02:43:41Z")
Jens, thanks again for the words. i’ve got one more question regarding searching by associations with aaf. Is it possible? for instance, i have an account model and a forum, with topics and messages. I’d love to search by current\_account.topics for instance. Using this shared index, can i do this (mind you it doesn’t work so i’m wondering if you have any hints?!?! > > ActsAsFerret::define\_index(‘forumindex’, > > :models =\> { > > current\_account.topics =\> {:fields =\> [:title]}, > > current\_account.messages =\> {:fields =\> [:title, :content]} > > }, > > :ferret =\> { > > :default\_fields =\> [:title, :title, :content] > > } > > ) Thoughts? Addendum: Although current\_account is a controller method in application.rb, maybe that’s why it won’t work. i just don’t k now enough to put it in the model however. thanks Phil.