SPH_RANK_SPH04 ranker

[janko]

First, I have to say that your gem is awesome. I really enjoy using it.

While choosing how to search, I wanted to choose a way that will rank exact matches higher than other. I found out on Sphinx's page that the ranker SPH_RANK_SPH04 does exactly that. So, is there any chance you can add it? Because I'm sure that many other people would enjoy it too.

[pat]

Hi Janko

Great to hear Thinking Sphinx is working well for you. You can choose other rankers via the :rank_mode option:

Model.search 'foo', :rank_mode => :sph04

Cheers

[janko]

But you don't have it in the code. Isn't it supposed to be in vendor/riddle/lib/riddle/client.rb? Because it's not listed under RankModes.

I was checking in the code because it doesn't work for me.

[pat]

Ah, you may need to update Thinking Sphinx - what version are you using?

[janko]

2.0.10

[pat]

If you're using TS as a gem (and that's certainly what I recommend), riddle is referenced as a gem as well (v1.5.0), and will have that rank mode in it.

On 18/12/2011, at 12:51 PM, Janko Marohnić wrote:

2.0.10

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[janko]

I guess I saw something wrong. I went into my riddle gem folder now, and I saw that there was :sph04. Sorry, I probably did something wrong in the code, causing the ranking not to work. Can I ask you something then? Can I do something like this?

:sort_mode => :sph04, :order => "@relevance DESC, popularity DESC"

I know it won't work, because you said in the guide that passing string to :order key is only possible with :sort_mode => :extended. But is it still somehow possible to do the above?

[pat]

:sort_mode and :rank_mode are separate settings - so just use the following:

:rank_mode => :sph04, :order => '@relevance DESC, popularity DESC'

On 18/12/2011, at 1:06 PM, Janko Marohnić wrote:

I guess I saw something wrong. I went into my riddle gem folder now, and I saw that there was :sph04. Sorry, I probably did something wrong in the code. Can I ask you something then? Can I do something like this?

:sort_mode => :sph04, :order => "@relevance DESC, popularity DESC"

I know it won't work, because you said in the guide that passing string to :order key is only possible with :sort_mode => :extended. But is it still somehow possible to do the above?

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[janko]

Oh tnx, I mixed them up. Unfortunately, it still doesn't match exact results higher, but now I know you don't have anything to do with this. Thank you for your help :)

[pat]

No worries - good luck with getting it sorting better :)

[thoughtpunch]

Is it possible setting the rank_mode globally in the thinking_sphinx.yml file?

[pat]

With Thinking Sphinx v3, the option is ranker, but yes, you should be able to set a default value for it in thinking_sphinx.yml under each environment.