Do not raise on missing objects.

The use of ActiveRecord's #find meant missing IDs raised AR::RecordNotFound. This might come up if an object was created and then deleted without its trigram data also being deleted. To avoid the exception this uses #where instead of #find which will ignore missing results.

Due to the method with which the records are sorted to match the trigram query, in these cases nils were cropping up in the results, so this uses #compact to just return the records.

The first test case ensures no exceptions are raised. The second test case ensures the fuzzy find still works and that no nils are returned.

lib/fuzzily/searchable.rb

@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ def _find_by_fuzzy(_o, pattern, options={})
           matches_for(pattern)
         records = _load_for_ids(trigrams.map(&:owner_id))
         # order records as per trigram query (no portable way to do this in SQL)
-        trigrams.map { |t| records[t.owner_id] }
+        trigrams.map { |t| records[t.owner_id] }.compact
       end
 
       def _load_for_ids(ids)
         {}.tap do |result|
-          find(ids).each { |_r| result[_r.id] = _r }
+          where(:id => ids).each { |_r| result[_r.id] = _r }
         end
       end
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def make_field_fuzzily_searchable(field, options={})
 
         after_save do |record|
           next unless record.send("#{field}_changed?".to_sym)
-          
+
           record.send(_o.update_trigrams_method)
         end
 

spec/fuzzily/searchable_spec.rb

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   before(:each) { prepare_trigrams_table }
   before(:each) { prepare_owners_table   }
 
-  subject do 
+  subject do
     silence_warnings do
       Stuff = Class.new(ActiveRecord::Base)
     end
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def Stuff.name ; 'Stuff' ; end
     before do
       subject.fuzzily_searchable :name
     end
-    
+
     it 're-creates trigrams' do
       subject.create!(:name => 'Paris')
       old_ids = Trigram.all.map(&:id)
@@ -171,6 +171,20 @@ def Stuff.name ; 'Stuff' ; end
         3.times { subject.create!(:name => 'Paris') }
         subject.find_by_fuzzy_name('Paris', :offset => 2).length.should == 1
       end
+
+      it 'does not raise on missing objects' do
+        subject.fuzzily_searchable :name
+        belgium = subject.create(:name => 'Belgium')
+        belgium.delete
+        subject.find_by_fuzzy_name('Belgium')
+      end
+
+      it 'finds others alongside missing' do
+        subject.fuzzily_searchable :name
+        belgium1, belgium2 = 2.times.map { subject.create(:name => 'Belgium') }
+        belgium1.delete
+        subject.find_by_fuzzy_name('Belgium').should ==  [belgium2]
+      end
     end
   end