Question

Let’s say I have a model defined as follows (title and description are string and text fields, respectively):

class Entity < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Skipped

  searchable do
    text :title,
    text :description
  end
end

I want to be able to use search queries like “title:foo description:bar”, which assumed to retrieve only those Entities which fields meet the search criteria, i.e. Entities which title contains “foo” and/or description contains “bar”. Exact syntax doesn’t matter.

I tried to type such query in the search field of my demo application, but obviously it didn’t return any results 🙂

So, does Sunspot query parser support fielded queries (don’t sure if the term is correct)?

Thanks.

Answer 1

That’s a feature that Solr’s edismax query parser should support. However Sunspot currently defaults to the older dismax query parser.

To enable edismax in your searches, try this line in your search block:

adjust_solr_params { |p| p[:defType] = 'edismax' }

(That’s off the top of my head; let me know if I missed the syntax.)