[Ferret-talk] :single_index deprecated?

[Chris Gansen]

Thanks for the update, Jens. Unfortunately, it looks like I'll have to  
stick with the stable branch for now - these changes in trunk don't  
jive well with my apps.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

-chris

On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Jens Krämer wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 10.10.2008, at 20:34, Chris G. wrote:
>
>> I noticed that the :single_index option is no longer listed in the
>> documentation for AAF, specifically in lib/acts_methods.rb [1]
>>
>> Furthermore, after an upgrade from a rather old version of AAF, I  
>> notice
>> that the index (after reindexing) is no longer in
>> RAILS_ROOT/index/RAILS_ENV/shared, but instead split out into  
>> separate
>> directories for each model. What changed?
>
> :single_index isn't supported any more.
>
> With current trunk the preferred way to declare an index is via the  
> ActsAsFerret::define_index method, in a file called config/aaf.rb.  
> There you may declare several classes using the same index like this:
>
> ActsAsFerret.define_index('my_index',
>                            :models => {
>                              OneModel => {
>                                :fields => {
>                                  :title => { :boost => 2 },
>                                  :description => { }
>                                },
>                                :if => Proc.new { |r| r.published? }
>                              },
>                              AnotherModel => {
>                                :fields => {
>                                  :title => { :boost => 2 },
>                                  :another_field => {},
>                                },
>                              :if => Proc.new { |r| r.should_index? }
>                            }, :ferret => {
>                              :default_field => %w( title description  
> another_field )
>                            })
>
> No need to call acts_as_ferret inside your model anymore (though it  
> will still work for the one index per class scenario).
> my_index is the name of the index, to be used with ActsAsFerret::find:
>
> ActsAsFerret::find("some query", 'my_index')
>
> to only search records of a given class, find_with_ferret works as  
> expected:
>
> OneModel.find_with_ferret('some query')
>
>
> Sorry for not documenting this stuff better...
>
>
> cheers,
> Jens
>
>
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