Question

I’m using the acts_as_index plugin for search and I’ve noticed that it seems to only return elements whose words match the exact query. I want to return elements even if the query is only part of a word. How would I configure for this?

Answer 1

acts_as_indexed only supports partial word matches at the beginning of the word. Here is an example from the docs:

Terms that begin with ^ will match records that contain a word starting with the term. ’^cat’ will find matches containing ‘cat’, ‘catapult’, ‘caterpillar’ etc.

This is to be expected from an indexed search. Searching for partial matches anywhere in a word would negate the benefits of using an index.