Acts_as_ferret

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I have to implement search function in my application, So i went with Acts_as_ferret engine. For that i used ferret-0.11.4-mswin32.gem and acts_as_ferret_0.4.1 plugin

I add require 'acts_as_ferret' in config/environment.rb:

add

acts_as_ferret :fields => [ :firstname,:lastname] in my user model

And in users table i have tuples as follows

id firstname lastname 1 san peter 2 santosh patil

when I query User.find_by_contents("san")

Not sure how find_by_contents works, but you need a wild card query... "san*"

http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Search/WildcardQuery.html

-philip