Are document boost and sort incompatible?

Ruby Apps Ferret
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I am using document boosting (following Jens’ suggestion here:
Document Boost in acts_as_ferret? - Ferret - Ruby-Forum) but am also trying to sort the
returned results, so I was using the :sort option. In my testing, using
a wildcard search, it appears that using the :sort option causes Ferret
to ignore document boosts and just return the first N hits it finds by
looking alphabetically. Is that the expected behavior? If I want the N
most relevant documents, do I need to sort them myself after getting
them from Ferret?

Thanks,
–Paul

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Hi Paul,

I think your assumption is correct - Ferret by default sorts by score,
and by specifying an alternative sorting you replace that default
sorting with something else.

Cheers,
Jens

On 10.03.2009, at 18:28, Paul L. wrote:

them from Ferret?

Thanks,
–Paul

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