Sunspot rails, highlighted hit text is truncated, returning only one fragment containing the match

Question

I'm implementing a full text search with sunspot, in which i store the text fields in order to get highlighted results.

Model code:

searchable do
    text    :name,         :stored   => true, :boost => 5.0
    text    :body,         :stored   => true, :boost => 3.0
    # ... some other non-text fields
end

controller code:

@search = Model.search do
    fulltext searchtext, highlight: true   # searchtext comes from params
    # ... some other fields
end

Rendering

@search.hits.each do |hit|
    hit.highlights(:name).each do |h|
        result = h.format { |word| "<result>#{word}</result>" }
        # output the result
    end
    hit.highlights(:body).each do |h|
        result = h.format { |word| "<result>#{word}</result>" }
        # output the result
    end
end

Everything works beautifully, except that when I am rendering the highlighted hit, I only get one fragment of the actual text.

So, instead of getting the phrase (which might be long), I only get a fragment of it. I've been trying around to put :fragment_size in the search definition (controller) but to no avail.

Any suggestion on how to output the FULL (:name or :body) and not just a fragment of it with highlight -> hit?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I found a workaround, but even if it works fine, I believe there should be some other way, so I'm still expecting some answers, if you please.

My workaround goes as follows:

I remove the markups I placed in my highlighted hit into a new variable:

a=result.gsub(/<\/?result>/,"")

fetch the corresponding field with Active Record

model=Model.find(hit.primary_key)

and replace the unformatted text (variable a) with the formatted (variable result)

newresult=model.body.gsub(a,result)

thus resulting to the desired outcome.