Question

In the Photo model I have following simple rule:

  searchable do
    string :note
  end

and I try to search some string with Solr (simultaneously in two tables). This is the output of Solr query in the terminal (the first one for Articles, the second one for Photos):

SOLR Request (4.8ms) [ path=# parameters={data: fq=type%3A
Article&q=searched_string&fl=%2A+score&qf=title+content&defType=dismax&start=0&rows=30 , method: post, params: {:wt=>:ruby}, query: wt=ruby, headers:
{“Content-Type”=>”application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8”},
path: select, uri: http://localhost:8982/solr/select?wt=ruby,
open_timeout: , read_timeout: } ]

and this

SOLR Request (4.4ms) [ path=#
parameters={data: fq=type%3A
Photo&q=asgasg&fl=%2A+score&defType=dismax&start=0&rows=30 , method: post, params: {:wt=>:ruby}, query: wt=ruby, headers:
{“Content-Type”=>”application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8”},
path: select, uri: http://localhost:8982/solr/select?wt=ruby,
open_timeout: , read_timeout: } ]

controller:

@articles = Article.search do
  fulltext params[:search]
end
@photos = Photo.search do
  fulltext params[:search]
end
## => searching ##
puts @articles.results #work fine
puts @photos.results #always 0

I totally don’t know, why SOLR doesn’t search in the Photo model… everything should be specified and set up, but still don’t know, where is the problem…

Answer 1

I think in Photo model you have to define :note as text type (not string) in order to run fulltext search on it:

searchable do
  text :note
end

Also, you set @articles and @photos, but checking @users and @photos in your question.

UPDATE

According to sunspot readme:

“text fields will be full-text searchable. Other fields (e.g., integer and string) can be used to scope queries”

That is, to run fulltext or keywords on that field, it has to be declared as text in the searchable block. You have it as string, which can only be used for exact match using with().

Good luck.