Comments on: acts_as_ferret pagination

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:09:14 +0000

In Rails 2.3 you have to make sure you load acts_as_ferret, will_paginate, and the patch in the right order. In order for me to get this working, I had to put require ‘acts_as_ferret’ above the initialize loop in environment.rb. If I didn’t, the patch would load before acts_as_ferret and result in an error.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:44:59 +0000

You might want to try to use less magic and monkey patching, and just use the two APIs together.

def self.paginate_by_contents(term, opts)
self.paginate(term, {:finder => “find_by_contents”, :total_entries => self.total_hits(term)}.merge(opts || {}))
end

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:26:47 +0000

Thanks for your reply!

I tried your suggestion and all the errors went away, however, all my search queries turn up nothing. Every single search combo in the console returns:

I decided to uninstall will_paginate plugin and install the mislav-will_paginate gem and use the built in pagination of ferret with the following method:

http://www.jumbabox.com/2008/05/acts_as_ferret-tutorial/

Unfortunately, that technique also returns nothing when I run a query… Given that the null findings occured in the new technique and the technique you suggested I was wondering if you have any ideas on how to remedy it?

By: thirstydoh

thirstydoh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:52:18 +0000

Looks like the patch file is not loaded. You need to put its name into vendor/plugins/patches/init.rb file, like this:

require ‘aaf_pagination’

Note you don’t need to mention lib directory there, it’s searched automatically.

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:23:56 +0000

I placed the first set of code that you posted into ‘vendor/plugins/patches/lib’ and then entered the following in the console (after restarting the console). Any clues to what’s wrong here?

t = Post.paginate_by_contents(‘test’, :total_entries => 10, :page => 1, :per_page => 2)
NoMethodError: undefined method `find_all_by_contents’ for #
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1613:in `method_missing_without_paginate’
from /Users/liamks/Documents/programs/rails/liamkaufman/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:164:in `method_missing’
from /Users/liamks/Documents/programs/rails/liamkaufman/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:82:in `send’
from /Users/liamks/Documents/programs/rails/liamkaufman/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:82:in `paginate’
from /Users/liamks/Documents/programs/rails/liamkaufman/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/collection.rb:87:in `create’
from /Users/liamks/Documents/programs/rails/liamkaufman/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:76:in `paginate’
from /Users/liamks/Documents/programs/rails/liamkaufman/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:177:in `method_missing’
from (irb):1