I was wondering if anyone had used ferret with an habtm relation?
Say you have books and authors books habtm authors authors habtm books
join table would be authors_books
I know in a 1 => m you can: acts_as_ferret :fields => [:title, :author_name] on books but how would you do something similar with the habtm?
Jon
You need to return what you want ferret to return to you when a search is made.
The search results will return all books that contain the name of the author, or authors. You could have a author_name as such,
def author_names search_string = "" authors = Authors.find_all_by_book(self) authors.each do | author | search_string << author.name << " " end search_string end
You put this in the field to search and ferret will happily index it.
Serge Chevarie-Pelletier
tresero wrote: