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Boost listings with photos using Sunspot Solr

I need to boost Foobars with photos. I have tried the following:

class Foobar < ActiveRecord::Base  
  searchable do
    text :full_name, :as => :full_name_textp
    boolean :photo do
      self.user.try(:avatar_file_name) != nil ? true : false
    end
    latlon(:location) { Sunspot::Util::Coordinates.new(latitude, longitude) }
    boost { :photo ? 1000 : 1 }
  end
end

When I reindex the foobars I get no errors, however, when I search for a local foobar the foobars with photos are not being pushed to the top.

Solution

  • So I couldn't figure out how to accomplish this by boosting (not sure if it's possible), but I was able to declare multiple sorters simultaneously to achieve the result I was looking for. 

    @dispensers = Dispenser.search do
  fulltext params[:search] 
  with(:location).in_radius(x, y, 15, :bbox => true)
  order_by(:photo, :desc)
end