Option to disable ranking

[rhymes]

There are cases when computing ranking between search results and the default order by ORDER BY rank DESC, id ASC is not required.

Although the default ordering can be disabled with .reorder(nil) the ranking computation itself can't be disabled.

I wish there was a an option for pg_search's ranked_by to disable it.

Something like: rank: false or ranked_by: false

If I'm not mistaken it should be possible by making this optional:

pg_search/lib/pg_search/scope_options.rb

Lines 138 to 142 in ea17b19

	def rank
	(config.ranking_sql || ":tsearch").gsub(/:(\w*)/) do
	feature_for(Regexp.last_match(1)).rank.to_sql
	end
	end

so that if config.ranking_sql (which is the value of options[:ranked_by]) is explicitly set to false ranking can be skipped entirely.

I can try to transform this idea into a PR, let me know

[fauno]

fwiw i could apply my own ordering by monkey-patching PgSearch::ScopeOptions#apply from line 21:

https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search/blob/master/lib/pg_search/scope_options.rb#L21-L23

module PgSearch
  ScopeOptions.class_eval do
    def apply(scope)
      scope = include_table_aliasing_for_rank(scope)
      rank_table_alias = scope.pg_search_rank_table_alias(include_counter: true)

      scope.joins(rank_join(rank_table_alias))
    end
  end
end

[skojin]

Without monkey patch

@pg_search_options = {
  against: [:title],
}
pg_search_scope :search, **@pg_search_options

def search_without_rank(query)
    options_with_query = {query: query}.merge(@pg_search_options)
    config = PgSearch::Configuration.new(options_with_query, self)
    scope_options = PgSearch::ScopeOptions.new(config)
    where(id: scope_options.send(:subquery).reselect(:id))
end