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Diffstat (limited to 'app/controllers/general_controller.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | app/controllers/general_controller.rb | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/app/controllers/general_controller.rb b/app/controllers/general_controller.rb index 013276984..5c1f9590a 100644 --- a/app/controllers/general_controller.rb +++ b/app/controllers/general_controller.rb @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ # Copyright (c) 2008 UK Citizens Online Democracy. All rights reserved. # Email: francis@mysociety.org; WWW: http://www.mysociety.org/ # -# $Id: general_controller.rb,v 1.55 2009-09-09 23:52:05 francis Exp $ +# $Id: general_controller.rb,v 1.56 2009-10-02 23:44:45 francis Exp $ require 'xmlsimple' require 'open-uri' @@ -103,7 +103,13 @@ class GeneralController < ApplicationController # Parse query, so can work out if it has prefix terms only - if so then it is a # structured query which should show newest first, rather than a free text search # where we want most relevant as default. - dummy_query = ::ActsAsXapian::Search.new([InfoRequestEvent], @query, :limit => 1) + begin + dummy_query = ::ActsAsXapian::Search.new([InfoRequestEvent], @query, :limit => 1) + rescue => e + flash[:error] = "Your query was not quite right. " + CGI.escapeHTML(e.to_str) + redirect_to search_url("") + return + end if dummy_query.has_normal_search_terms? @sortby = 'relevant' else |