Module: ActsAsSolr::ActsMethods

Defined in:
lib/acts_methods.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#acts_as_solr(options = {}, solr_options = {}) ⇒ Object

declares a class as solr-searchable

options:

fields

This option can be used to specify only the fields you’d like to index. If not given, all the attributes from the class will be indexed. You can also use this option to include methods that should be indexed as fields

class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :fields => [:name, :description, :current_time]
  def current_time
    Time.now.to_s
  end
end

Each field passed can also be a hash with the value being a field type

class Electronic < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :fields => [{:price => :range_float}]
  def current_time
    Time.now
  end
end

The field types accepted are:

:float

Index the field value as a float (ie.: 12.87)

:integer

Index the field value as an integer (ie.: 31)

:boolean

Index the field value as a boolean (ie.: true/false)

:date

Index the field value as a date (ie.: Wed Nov 15 23:13:03 PST 2006)

:string

Index the field value as a text string, not applying the same indexing filters as a regular text field

:range_integer

Index the field value for integer range queries (ie.:[5 TO 20])

:range_float

Index the field value for float range queries (ie.:[14.56 TO 19.99])

Setting the field type preserves its original type when indexed

The field may also be passed with a hash value containing options

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base

acts_as_solr :fields => [{:full_name => {:type => :text, :as => :name}}]
def full_name
  self.first_name + ' ' + self.last_name
end

end

The options accepted are:

:type

Index the field using the specified type

:as

Index the field using the specified field name

additional_fields

This option takes fields to be include in the index in addition to those derived from the database. You can also use this option to include custom fields derived from methods you define. This option will be ignored if the :fields option is given. It also accepts the same field types as the option above

class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base
 acts_as_solr :additional_fields => [:current_time]
 def current_time
   Time.now.to_s
 end
end
exclude_fields

This option taks an array of fields that should be ignored from indexing:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :exclude_fields => [:password, :login, :credit_card_number]
end
include

This option can be used for association indexing, which means you can include any :has_one, :has_many, :belongs_to and :has_and_belongs_to_many association to be indexed:

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :books
  acts_as_solr :include => [:books]
end

Each association may also be specified as a hash with an option hash as a value

class Book < ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :author
has_many :distribution_companies
has_many :copyright_dates
has_many :media_types
acts_as_solr(
  :fields => [:name, :description],
  :include => [
    {:author => {:using => :fullname, :as => :name}},
    {:media_types => {:using => lambda{|media| type_lookup(media.id)}}}
    {:distribution_companies => {:as => :distributor, :multivalued => true}},
    {:copyright_dates => {:as => :copyright, :type => :date}}
  ]
]

The options accepted are:

:type

Index the associated objects using the specified type

:as

Index the associated objects using the specified field name

:using

Index the associated objects using the value returned by the specified method or proc. If a method symbol is supplied, it will be sent to each object to look up the value to index; if a proc is supplied, it will be called once for each object with the object as the only argument

:multivalued

Index the associated objects using one field for each object rather than joining them all into a single field

facets

This option can be used to specify the fields you’d like to index as facet fields

class Electronic < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :facets => [:category, :manufacturer]  
end
boost

You can pass a boost (float) value that will be used to boost the document and/or a field. To specify a more boost for the document, you can either pass a block or a symbol. The block will be called with the record as an argument, a symbol will result in the according method being called:

class Electronic < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :fields => [{:price => {:boost => 5.0}}], :boost => 10.0
end

class Electronic < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :fields => [{:price => {:boost => 5.0}}], :boost => proc {|record| record.id + 120*37}
end

class Electronic < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :fields => [{:price => {:boost => :price_rating}}], :boost => 10.0
end
if

Only indexes the record if the condition evaluated is true. The argument has to be either a symbol, string (to be eval’ed), proc/method, or class implementing a static validation method. It behaves the same way as ActiveRecord’s :if option.

class Electronic < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :if => proc{|record| record.is_active?}
end
offline

Assumes that your using an outside mechanism to explicitly trigger indexing records, e.g. you only want to update your index through some asynchronous mechanism. Will accept either a boolean or a block that will be evaluated before actually contacting the index for saving or destroying a document. Defaults to false. It doesn’t refer to the mechanism of an offline index in general, but just to get a centralized point where you can control indexing. Note: This is only enabled for saving records. acts_as_solr doesn’t always like it, if you have a different number of results coming from the database and the index. This might be rectified in another patch to support lazy loading.

class Electronic < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :offline => proc {|record| record.automatic_indexing_disabled?}
end
auto_commit

The commit command will be sent to Solr only if its value is set to true:

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_solr :auto_commit => false
end



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# File 'lib/acts_methods.rb', line 161

def acts_as_solr(options={}, solr_options={})
  
  extend ClassMethods
  include InstanceMethods
  include CommonMethods
  include ParserMethods
  
  cattr_accessor :configuration
  cattr_accessor :solr_configuration
  
  self.configuration = { 
    :fields => nil,
    :additional_fields => nil,
    :exclude_fields => [],
    :auto_commit => true,
    :include => nil,
    :facets => nil,
    :boost => nil,
    :if => "true",
    :offline => false
  }  
  self.solr_configuration = {
    :type_field => "type_s",
    :primary_key_field => "pk_i",
    :default_boost => 1.0
  }
  
  configuration.update(options) if options.is_a?(Hash)
  solr_configuration.update(solr_options) if solr_options.is_a?(Hash)
  Deprecation.validate_index(configuration)
  
  configuration[:solr_fields] = {}
  configuration[:solr_includes] = {}
  
  after_save    :solr_save
  after_destroy :solr_destroy

  if configuration[:fields].respond_to?(:each)
    process_fields(configuration[:fields])
  else
    process_fields(self.new.attributes.keys.map { |k| k.to_sym })
    process_fields(configuration[:additional_fields])
  end

  if configuration[:include].respond_to?(:each)
    process_includes(configuration[:include])
  end
  
  alias_method_chain :method_missing, :solr_magic
end