I am trying to fetch minimum 3 records for a certain model. The problem I am facing right now is, there is full_text matching involved as well. It works fine when I pass a keyword 'Hello' to the query. It only matches a single record because it's the only one that exists.
I would like for the query to at least fetch 3 records, even if they are not matched in full_text. The rest of the conditions should be met however.
Is there a way to make sure the minimum count is met?
If you are using edismax query parser for Apache Solr you could try using "bq" parameter for your actual query text (use with a boost more than 1) and setting "q=:" always; in addition to this you may also want to use "mm" parameter if you are expecting multi-word queries.
By this approch you will have full re-call in your search and will have same relevancy as of earlier queries unless you don't want to define field level boost using in place other than in "bq".
I have not used Sunspot Solr for RoR but equivalent terms may be "minimum_match" for "mm"; "boost function" for "bq".