Got the full-text searching working with the blogging engine, plus it's really fast using the Ferret gem and Will Paginate.
First grab the necessary gems,
sudo gem install ferret acts_as_ferret will_paginate
Then,
require 'will_paginate'
require 'acts_as_ferret'
Next up I defined the elements to search against in the target model (here app/model/article.rb)
acts_as_ferret :fields => [:title, :body, :cached_tag_list]
And then altered the search method to...
@articles = Article.paginate_search params[:search], :page => params[:page], :per_page => $blog.article_count
...you will need to add this class method to handle the pagination with Will Paginate
module ActsAsFerret
module ClassMethods
def paginate_search(query, options = {})
page, per_page, total = wp_parse_options(options)
pager = WillPaginate::Collection.new(page, per_page, total)
options.merge!(:offset => pager.offset, :limit => per_page)
result = find_by_contents(query, options)
returning WillPaginate::Collection.new(page, per_page, result.total_hits) do |pager|
pager.replace result
end
end
end
end
...thanks to opensoul.org for this solution.
Works like a charm ;-)
