acts_as_ferret Search broken after upgrade?!?! HELP!

private method `initialize' called for ActsAsFerret:Module (NoMethodError)

my script/server 'log' is spitting this message out when i add:

  config.after_initialize do
    ActsAsFerret.initialize
  end

to my config/environment.rb file.

just for a reminder

i'm at work now, but will post code this evening.

what portions would you like?  screw it, i'll post the whole thing.

First, here is my aaf.rb file

ActsAsFerret::define_index('comeonworkjerk',
 :models => {
   Product  => {:fields => [:name, :company]},
   Post    => {:fields => [:title, :body]}
 },
 :ferret   => {
   :default_fields => [:name, :company, :title, :body]
 }
)

i'm using a _menu.html.erb partial inside my layout in layout/application.html.erb
_meni.html.erb

            <li><% form_tag search_search_path, :method => :get do %>
            <%= text_field_tag 'q', params[:q], :style => "width: 50%" %>
            <%= submit_tag "Search!", :name => nil %>
            <% end %></li>

in my search_controller.rb

class SearchController < ApplicationController
  def index
  end
  
  def search
    @results = ActsAsFerret.find(params[:q], 'comeonworkjerk')
  end
end

in my view, which i keep in search/search.html.erb

<h1>Search Results for "<%=h params[:q] %>"</h1>
<%= render :partial => 'search' %>
<%= @results.inspect %>
<ul>
  <% @results.each do |result| %>
    <%= render :partial => "#{dom_class(result)}", :object => result %>
  <% end %>
</ul>

search/_post.html.erb

<li><%= post.body %></li>

search/_product.html.erb

<li><%= product.company %></li>

Last edited by nerb (2008-05-18 10:28:15)

thanks dtorgerson.

when i start mongrel, and i look at my terminal, when mongrel loads up, it spits out those messages.  In the demo app that was created in the tutorial, the last few mongrel lines are as follows:

SQL (0.000366)    SELECT name
 FROM sqlite_master
 WHERE type = 'table' AND NOT name = 'sqlite_sequence'
configured index for class Company:
{:mysql_fast_batches=>true, :single_index=>false, :index_base_dir=>"/Users/nerb/Downloads/ferret-example/index/development/shared", :reindex_batch_size=>1000, :models=>{Post(id: integer, title: string, body: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime)=>{:fields=>[:title, :body]}, Person(id: integer, first_name: string, last_name: string, phone: string, bio: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime)=>{:fields=>[:first_name, :last_name, :phone, :bio]}, Company(id: integer, name: string, description: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime)=>{:fields=>[:name, :description]}}, :name=>:shared, :registered_models=>[Post(id: integer, title: string, body: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime), Person(id: integer, first_name: string, last_name: string, phone: string, bio: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime), Company(id: integer, name: string, description: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime)], :ferret=>{:auto_flush=>true, :key=>[:id, :class_name], :or_default=>false, :path=>"/Users/nerb/Downloads/ferret-example/index/development/shared", :handle_parse_errors=>true, :create_if_missing=>true, :default_field=>[:description, :name, :first_name, :title, :phone, :last_name, :bio, :body], :default_fields=>[:first_name, :last_name, :phone, :bio, :name, :description, :title, :body]}, :raise_drb_errors=>false, :ferret_fields=>{:description=>{:via=>:description, :boost=>1.0, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets}, :name=>{:via=>:name, :boost=>1.0, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets}, :first_name=>{:via=>:first_name, :boost=>1.0, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets}, :title=>{:via=>:title, :boost=>1.0, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets}, :phone=>{:via=>:phone, :boost=>1.0, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets}, :last_name=>{:via=>:last_name, :boost=>1.0, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets}, :bio=>{:via=>:bio, :boost=>1.0, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets}, :body=>{:via=>:body, :boost=>1.0, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets}}, :user_default_field=>nil, :enabled=>true, :index_dir=>"/Users/nerb/Downloads/ferret-example/index/development/shared"}

when start mongrel in my own app, using his code, but customized for my models i get this output in the log (terminal output):

SQL (0.001385)   SHOW TABLES
  SQL (0.001333)   SHOW TABLES
  SQL (0.001324)   SHOW TABLES
  SQL (0.001369)   SHOW TABLES
configured index for class Post:
{:raise_drb_errors=>false, :ferret_fields=>{:company=>{:index=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :boost=>1.0, :via=>:company}, :name=>{:index=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :boost=>1.0, :via=>:name}, :title=>{:index=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :boost=>1.0, :via=>:title}, :body=>{:index=>:yes, :term_vector=>:with_positions_offsets, :store=>:no, :highlight=>:yes, :boost=>1.0, :via=>:body}}, :user_default_field=>nil, :enabled=>true, :index_dir=>"/Users/nerb/rails/loseit/index/development/comeonworkjerk", :name=>:comeonworkjerk, :mysql_fast_batches=>true, :single_index=>false, :models=>{Product(id: integer, name: string, url: string, image: string, description: string, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime, color: string, company: string)=>{:fields=>[:name, :company]}, Post(id: integer, title: string, body: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime, blog_id: integer, url_slug: string)=>{:fields=>[:title, :body]}}, :index_base_dir=>"/Users/nerb/rails/loseit/index/development/comeonworkjerk", :reindex_batch_size=>1000, :registered_models=>[Product(id: integer, name: string, url: string, image: string, description: string, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime, color: string, company: string), Post(id: integer, title: string, body: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime, blog_id: integer, url_slug: string)], :ferret=>{:default_field=>[:company, :name, :title, :body], :auto_flush=>true, :key=>[:id, :class_name], :path=>"/Users/nerb/rails/loseit/index/development/comeonworkjerk", :default_fields=>[:name, :company, :title, :body], :or_default=>false, :handle_parse_errors=>true, :create_if_missing=>true}}

What version of Rails are you working in?

okay, one thing that I did was move my search into my search out of my controller and into my model.

def do_search(per_page, page)
    return ActsAsFerret::find(query, [Organization, Activity], :per_page => per_page, :page => page)    
end

This allowed me to run very basic tests to inspect the returned object. So one of my unit tests looks like this

  def test_search_activities
    act = activities(:river_rafting)
    s = Search.new("river")
    assert s
    assert s.instance_of?(Search)
    results = s.do_search(5,1)
    assert results
    assert results.instance_of?(Array)
    puts results.per_page
  end

This allowed me to focus on the search and not worry about controllers or views. As you can see, the key for me was determining that an array was being returned instead of a SearchObject.

I'll have a look but if you haven't, I highly recommend you move search to your search model (not an ActiveRecord object in my case)

Last edited by dtorgerson (2008-05-18 22:19:53)

Congratulations! If you haven't done so already, you may want to write up some tests just to try and get more predictable behaviour.