I am using Acts as Ferret and trying to filter my search results by location (doing a location-based search). I came across a locationfilter on http://blog.tourb.us/archives/ferret-and-location-... <- this blog post. I don't really know how to use this from within my model (where I'm actually searching). Help Please..? -Arvind
on 2008-07-13 07:44

on 2008-07-13 08:08

For location based search (ActiveRecord Based), you might want to take a look at http://geokit.rubyforge.org/. It's so cool it supports more than one algorithm to calculate proximity. I haven't tried to mix ActsAsFerret with Geokit. Would be interesting to know what happens.
on 2008-07-13 08:24

Julio, I've actually checked that plugin and it seems to be great. But what I'm trying to achieve is pretty much explained on that blog post -> http://blog.tourb.us/archives/ferret-and-location-... . A-la Google Maps. I want to be able to search for a particular named location (name/description - text search) within an X mile radius of a given lat/long. That's why the filter for ferret :) -Arvind