Support for anonymous model classes #1172
Description
Fore more fine-grained model control, I instantiate the model in an anonymous class that inherits from the original model class. However thinking-sphinx is unable to handle this situation since model.class is nil.
A concrete error scenario is using thinking-sphinx together with the gem RailsOps (https://github.com/sitrox/rails_ops).
To support this, two changes are necessary to thinking-sphinx. They can be monkey-patched in the the gem as follows:
# EDIT: DO NOT USE, SEE BELOW
# Monkey patch no. 1 for supporting anonymous classes. Otherwise incompatible with rails_ops
class ThinkingSphinx::IndexSet
def self.reference_name(klass)
@cached_results ||= {}
result = @cached_results[klass.model_name.name] ||= klass.model_name.name.underscore.to_sym
return result
end
end
# Monkey patch no. 2 for supporting anonymous classes. Otherwise incompatible with rails_ops
class ThinkingSphinx::RealTime::Translator
def result
@result ||= owner.try(name)
@result ||= owner.model_name.name if name == :name && stack == [:class]
return @result
end
end
It would be great if this or a better solution could be implemented in the upcoming release of thinking-sphinx. It should be no trouble to implement it and the change would allow support for patterns with anonymous classes.
Edit: Monkey patch 1 is flawed, use this instead:
class ThinkingSphinx::IndexSet
def self.reference_name(klass)
@cached_results ||= {}
if klass.name
@cached_results[klass.name] = klass.name.underscore.to_sym
return @cached_results[klass.name]
else
@cached_results[klass.model_name.name] ||= klass.model_name.name.underscore.to_sym
return @cached_results[klass.model_name.name]
end
end
end