Question

I have:

define_index do
    .
    .
    indexes tags.name, :as => tags
end

How do I show the excerpts for tags? Doing search_obj.excerpts.tags does not seem to work.

Answer 1

The excerpts method just calls back to the original object – so you’ll need a method on it that returns all the tag data. Something like the following in the model:

def tag_names
  tags.collect(&:name).join(' ')
end

And then excerpts calls for that should be:

search_obj.excerpts.tag_names