diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rdoc b/CHANGELOG.rdoc
index 32c3196..db9d239 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rdoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rdoc
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+== 2.0.3
+
+* 1 new feature
+
+  * Allow searching through relations. Model.join(:relation).search(:relation => {:column => "query"})
+    works, and reduces the need for multi-model tables. Huge thanks to Ben Hamill for the pull request.
+  * Allow searching through all model columns irrespective of the column's type; we cast all columns to text
+    in the search query. Performance may degrade when searching through anything but a string column.
+
+* 2 bugfixes
+
+  * Fix exceptions when adding Texticle to a table-less model.
+  * Column names in a search query are now scoped to the current table.
+
+* 1 dev improvement
+
+  * Running `rake` from the project root will setup the test environment by creating a test database
+    and running the necessary migrations. `rake` can also be used to run all the project tests.
+
 == 2.0.2
 
 * 1 bugfix
diff --git a/README.rdoc b/README.rdoc
index 491f1a0..2cdad79 100644
--- a/README.rdoc
+++ b/README.rdoc
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ Your models now have access to the search method:
   Game.search_by_title_or_system('Final Fantasy, 'PS3')
 
 === Creating Indexes for Super Speed
-You can have postgresql use an index for the full-text search.  To declare a full-text index, in a 
+You can have Postgresql use an index for the full-text search.  To declare a full-text index, in a
 migration add code like the following:
 
   execute "
       create index on email_logs using gin(to_tsvector('english', subject));
       create index on email_logs using gin(to_tsvector('english', email_address));"
 
-In the above example, the table email_logs has two text columns that we search against, subject and email_address.  
-You will need to add an index for every text/string column in your table, or else postgresql will revert to a 
+In the above example, the table email_logs has two text columns that we search against, subject and email_address.
+You will need to add an index for every text/string column you query against, or else Postgresql will revert to a
 full table scan instead of using the indexes.
 
 
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index b908217..825f70e 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -8,17 +8,7 @@ require 'benchmark'
 $LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec')
 
 task :default do
-  config = File.open(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec/config.yml')).read
-  if config.match /<username>/
-    print "Would you like to create and configure the test database? y/n "
-    continue = STDIN.getc
-    exit 0 unless continue == "Y" || continue == "y"
-    sh "createdb texticle"
-    File.open(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec/config.yml'), "w") do |writable_config|
-      writable_config << config.sub(/<username>/, `whoami`.chomp)
-    end
-    Rake::Task["db:migrate"].invoke
-  end
+  Rake::Task["db:setup"].invoke
   Rake::Task["test"].invoke
 end
 
@@ -29,6 +19,41 @@ task :test do
 end
 
 namespace :db do
+  desc 'Create and configure the test database'
+  task :setup do
+    spec_directory = "#{File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))}/spec"
+
+    STDOUT.puts "Detecting database configuration..."
+
+    if File.exists?("#{spec_directory}/config.yml")
+      STDOUT.puts "Configuration detected. Skipping confguration."
+    else
+      STDOUT.puts "Would you like to create and configure the test database? y/N"
+      continue = STDIN.gets.chomp
+
+      unless continue =~ /^[y]$/i
+        STDOUT.puts "Done."
+        exit 0
+      end
+
+      STDOUT.puts "Creating database..."
+      `createdb texticle`
+
+      STDOUT.puts "Writing configuration file..."
+
+      config_example = File.read("#{spec_directory}/config.yml.example")
+
+      File.open("#{spec_directory}/config.yml", "w") do |config|
+        config << config_example.sub(/<username>/, `whoami`.chomp)
+      end
+
+      STDOUT.puts "Running migrations..."
+      Rake::Task["db:migrate"].invoke
+
+      STDOUT.puts 'Done.'
+    end
+  end
+
   desc 'Run migrations for test database'
   task :migrate do
     require 'spec_helper'
@@ -39,18 +64,28 @@ namespace :db do
         table.text :description
       end
       create_table :web_comics do |table|
+
         table.string :name
         table.string :author
         table.text :review
+        table.integer :id
+      end
+
+      create_table :characters do |table|
+        table.string :name
+        table.string :description
+        table.integer :web_comic_id
       end
     end
   end
+
   desc 'Drop tables from test database'
   task :drop do
     require 'spec_helper'
     ActiveRecord::Migration.instance_eval do
       drop_table :games
       drop_table :web_comics
+      drop_table :characters
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/texticle.rb b/lib/texticle.rb
index 4e6fae8..c7108c2 100644
--- a/lib/texticle.rb
+++ b/lib/texticle.rb
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
 require 'active_record'
 
 module Texticle
+  VERSION = '2.0.3'
+
+  def self.version
+    VERSION
+  end
+
   def self.searchable_language
     'english'
   end
 
   def search(query = "", exclusive = true)
-    language = connection.quote(searchable_language)
+    @similarities = []
+    @conditions = []
 
     unless query.is_a?(Hash)
       exclusive = false
@@ -15,20 +22,12 @@ def search(query = "", exclusive = true)
       end
     end
 
-    similarities = []
-    conditions = []
-
-    query.each do |column, search_term|
-      column = connection.quote_column_name(column)
-      search_term = connection.quote normalize(Helper.normalize(search_term))
-      similarities << "ts_rank(to_tsvector(#{language}, #{quoted_table_name}.#{column}::text), to_tsquery(#{language}, #{search_term}::text))"
-      conditions << "to_tsvector(#{language}, #{quoted_table_name}.#{column}::text) @@ to_tsquery(#{language}, #{search_term}::text)"
-    end
+    parse_query_hash(query)
 
     rank = connection.quote_column_name('rank' + rand.to_s)
 
-    select("#{quoted_table_name + '.*,' if scoped.select_values.empty?} #{similarities.join(" + ")} AS #{rank}").
-      where(conditions.join(exclusive ? " AND " : " OR ")).
+    select("#{quoted_table_name + '.*,' if scoped.select_values.empty?} #{@similarities.join(" + ")} AS #{rank}").
+      where(@conditions.join(exclusive ? " AND " : " OR ")).
       order("#{rank} DESC")
   end
 
@@ -61,6 +60,22 @@ def respond_to?(method, include_private = false)
 
   private
 
+  def parse_query_hash(query, table_name = quoted_table_name)
+    language = connection.quote(searchable_language)
+    table_name = connection.quote_table_name(table_name)
+
+    query.each do |column_or_table, search_term|
+      if search_term.is_a?(Hash)
+        parse_query_hash(search_term, column_or_table)
+      else
+        column = connection.quote_column_name(column_or_table)
+        search_term = connection.quote normalize(Helper.normalize(search_term))
+        @similarities << "ts_rank(to_tsvector(#{language}, #{table_name}.#{column}::text), to_tsquery(#{language}, #{search_term}::text))"
+        @conditions << "to_tsvector(#{language}, #{table_name}.#{column}::text) @@ to_tsquery(#{language}, #{search_term}::text)"
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
   def normalize(query)
     query
   end
diff --git a/lib/texticle/tasks.rb b/lib/texticle/tasks.rb
index 86b16ab..b78fda9 100644
--- a/lib/texticle/tasks.rb
+++ b/lib/texticle/tasks.rb
@@ -7,4 +7,25 @@
     raise 'A model name is required' unless args[:model_name]
     Texticle::FullTextIndexer.new.generate_migration(args[:model_name])
   end
+
+  desc "Install trigram text search module"
+  task :install_trigram => [:environment] do
+    share_dir = `pg_config --sharedir`.chomp
+
+    raise RuntimeError, "Cannot find Postgres's shared directory." unless $?.success?
+
+    trigram = "#{share_dir}/contrib/pg_trgm.sql"
+
+    unless system("ls #{trigram}")
+      raise RuntimeError, 'cannot find trigram module; was it compiled and installed?'
+    end
+
+    db_name = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.current_database
+
+    unless system("psql -d #{db_name} -f #{trigram}")
+      raise RuntimeError, "`psql -d #{db_name} -f #{trigram}` cannot complete successfully"
+    end
+
+    puts "Trigram text search module successfully installed into '#{db_name}' database."
+  end
 end
diff --git a/spec/.gitignore b/spec/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d3ed4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+config.yml
diff --git a/spec/config.yml b/spec/config.yml.example
similarity index 100%
rename from spec/config.yml
rename to spec/config.yml.example
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/character.rb b/spec/fixtures/character.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a485fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/fixtures/character.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+require 'active_record'
+
+class Character < ActiveRecord::Base
+  # string :name
+  # string :description
+  # integer :web_comic_id
+
+  belongs_to :web_comic
+end
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/game.rb b/spec/fixtures/game.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d39ed8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/fixtures/game.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+require 'active_record'
+
+class Game < ActiveRecord::Base
+  # string :system
+  # string :title
+  # text :description
+end
+
+class GameFail < Game; end
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/webcomic.rb b/spec/fixtures/webcomic.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93d19d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/fixtures/webcomic.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+require 'active_record'
+
+class WebComic < ActiveRecord::Base
+  # string :name
+  # string :author
+  # integer :id
+
+  has_many :characters
+end
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 54b365f..5e09e44 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 require 'yaml'
 require 'texticle'
 require 'shoulda'
-require 'ruby-debug'
 
 config = YAML.load_file File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/config.yml')
 ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection config.merge(:adapter => :postgresql)
diff --git a/spec/texticle/searchable_spec.rb b/spec/texticle/searchable_spec.rb
index 774ce9a..0fd3b15 100644
--- a/spec/texticle/searchable_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/texticle/searchable_spec.rb
@@ -1,16 +1,11 @@
 require 'spec_helper'
+require 'fixtures/webcomic'
 require 'texticle/searchable'
 
-class WebComic < ActiveRecord::Base
-  # string :name
-  # string :author
-end
-
 class SearchableTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
-
   context "when extending an ActiveRecord::Base subclass" do
     setup do
-      @qcont = WebComic.create :name => "Questionable Content", :author => "Jeff Jaques"
+      @qcont = WebComic.create :name => "Questionable Content", :author => "Jeph Jaques"
       @jhony = WebComic.create :name => "Johnny Wander", :author => "Ananth & Yuko"
       @ddeeg = WebComic.create :name => "Dominic Deegan", :author => "Mookie"
       @penny = WebComic.create :name => "Penny Arcade", :author => "Tycho & Gabe"
@@ -18,9 +13,10 @@ class SearchableTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
     teardown do
       WebComic.delete_all
+      #Object.send(:remove_const, :WebComic) if defined?(WebComic)
     end
 
-    context "with no paramters" do
+    context "with no parameters" do
       setup do
         WebComic.extend Searchable
       end
@@ -67,5 +63,4 @@ class SearchableTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
       end
     end
   end
-
 end
diff --git a/spec/texticle_spec.rb b/spec/texticle_spec.rb
index c0e9c1f..c5a6e29 100644
--- a/spec/texticle_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/texticle_spec.rb
@@ -1,24 +1,14 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 require 'spec_helper'
-
-class Game < ActiveRecord::Base
-  # string :system
-  # string :title
-  # text :description
-
-  def to_s
-    "#{system}: #{title} (#{description})"
-  end
-end
-
-class NotThere < ActiveRecord::Base; end
+require 'fixtures/webcomic'
+require 'fixtures/character'
+require 'fixtures/game'
 
 class TexticleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
-
   context "after extending ActiveRecord::Base" do
-    setup do
-      ActiveRecord::Base.extend(Texticle)
-    end
+    # before(:all)
+    ActiveRecord::Base.extend(Texticle)
+    class NotThere < ActiveRecord::Base; end
 
     should "not break #respond_to?" do
       assert_nothing_raised do
@@ -51,11 +41,45 @@ class TexticleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
         assert_match error.message, /undefined method `random'/
       end
     end
+
+    context "when finding models based on searching a related model" do
+      setup do
+        @qc = WebComic.create :name => "Questionable Content", :author => "Jeph Jaques"
+        @jw = WebComic.create :name => "Johnny Wander", :author => "Ananth & Yuko"
+        @pa = WebComic.create :name => "Penny Arcade", :author => "Tycho & Gabe"
+
+        @gabe = @pa.characters.create :name => 'Gabe', :description => 'the simple one'
+        @tycho = @pa.characters.create :name => 'Tycho', :description => 'the wordy one'
+        @div = @pa.characters.create :name => 'Div', :description => 'a crude divx player with anger management issues'
+
+        @martin = @qc.characters.create :name => 'Martin', :description => 'the insecure protagonist'
+        @faye = @qc.characters.create :name => 'Faye', :description => 'a sarcastic barrista with anger management issues'
+        @pintsize = @qc.characters.create :name => 'Pintsize', :description => 'a crude AnthroPC'
+
+        @ananth = @jw.characters.create :name => 'Ananth', :description => 'Stubble! What is under that hat?!?'
+        @yuko = @jw.characters.create :name => 'Yuko', :description => 'So... small. Carl Sagan haircut.'
+        @john = @jw.characters.create :name => 'John', :description => 'Tall. Anger issues?'
+        @cricket = @jw.characters.create :name => 'Cricket', :description => 'Chirrup!'
+      end
+
+      teardown do
+        WebComic.delete_all
+        Character.delete_all
+      end
+
+      should "look in the related model with nested searching syntax" do
+        assert_equal [@jw], WebComic.joins(:characters).search(:characters => {:description => 'tall'})
+        assert_equal [@pa, @jw, @qc].sort, WebComic.joins(:characters).search(:characters => {:description => 'anger'}).sort
+        assert_equal [@pa, @qc].sort, WebComic.joins(:characters).search(:characters => {:description => 'crude'}).sort
+      end
+    end
   end
 
   context "after extending an ActiveRecord::Base subclass" do
+    # before(:all)
+    class ::GameFail < Game; end
+
     setup do
-      Game.extend(Texticle)
       @zelda = Game.create :system => "NES",     :title => "Legend of Zelda",    :description => "A Link to the Past."
       @mario = Game.create :system => "NES",     :title => "Super Mario Bros.",  :description => "The original platformer."
       @sonic = Game.create :system => "Genesis", :title => "Sonic the Hedgehog", :description => "Spiky."
@@ -69,16 +93,14 @@ class TexticleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     teardown do
       Game.delete_all
     end
-    
-    should "not break respond_to? when connection is unavailable" do
-      class GameFail < Game
-      end
 
+    should "not break respond_to? when connection is unavailable" do
       GameFail.establish_connection({:adapter => :postgresql, :database =>'unavailable', :username=>'bad', :pool=>5, :timeout=>5000}) rescue nil
+
       assert_nothing_raised do
         GameFail.respond_to?(:search)
       end
-      
+
     end
 
     should "define a #search method" do
@@ -190,17 +212,15 @@ class GameFail < Game
   end
 
   context "when setting a custom search language" do
+    def Game.searchable_language
+      'spanish'
+    end
+
     setup do
-      def Game.searchable_language
-        'spanish'
-      end
       Game.create :system => "PS3", :title => "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows"
     end
 
     teardown do
-      def Game.searchable_language
-        'english'
-      end
       Game.delete_all
     end
 
@@ -208,5 +228,4 @@ def Game.searchable_language
       assert_not_empty Game.search_by_title("harry")
     end
   end
-
 end
diff --git a/texticle.gemspec b/texticle.gemspec
index b41a64b..32c186a 100644
--- a/texticle.gemspec
+++ b/texticle.gemspec
@@ -1,49 +1,45 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
 
+require File.expand_path('../lib/texticle', __FILE__)
+
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
-  s.name = %q{texticle}
-  s.version = "2.0.2"
-
-  s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
-  s.authors = ["ecin", "Aaron Patterson"]
-  s.date = %q{2011-08-30}
-  s.description = %q{Texticle exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, extending
-    ActiveRecord with scopes making search easy and fun!}
-  s.email = ["ecin@copypastel.com"]
-  s.extra_rdoc_files = ["Manifest.txt", "CHANGELOG.rdoc", "README.rdoc"]
-  s.files = ["CHANGELOG.rdoc", "Manifest.txt", "README.rdoc", "Rakefile", "lib/texticle.rb", "lib/texticle/searchable.rb",
-    "lib/texticle/rails.rb", "spec/spec_helper.rb", "spec/texticle_spec.rb", "spec/texticle/searchable_spec.rb", "spec/config.yml"]
-  s.homepage = %q{http://tenderlove.github.com/texticle}
-  s.rdoc_options = ["--main", "README.rdoc"]
-  s.require_paths = ["lib"]
-  s.rubyforge_project = %q{texticle}
-  s.rubygems_version = %q{1.7.2}
-  s.summary = %q{Texticle exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL}
-  s.test_files = ["spec/spec_helper.rb", "spec/texticle_spec.rb", "spec/config.yml"]
-
-  if s.respond_to? :specification_version then
-    current_version = Gem::Specification::CURRENT_SPECIFICATION_VERSION
-    s.specification_version = 3
-
-    if Gem::Version.new(Gem::VERSION) >= Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') then
-      s.add_development_dependency(%q<pg>, ["~> 0.11.0"])
-      s.add_development_dependency(%q<shoulda>, ["~> 2.11.3"])
-      s.add_development_dependency(%q<rake>, ["~> 0.8.0"])
-      s.add_development_dependency(%q<ruby-debug19>, ["~> 0.11.6"])
-
-      s.add_dependency(%q<activerecord>, ["~> 3.0"])
-    else
-      s.add_dependency(%q<pg>, ["~> 0.11.0"])
-      s.add_dependency(%q<shoulda>, ["~> 2.11.3"])
-      s.add_dependency(%q<rake>, ["~> 0.8.0"])
-      s.add_dependency(%q<ruby-debug19>, ["~> 0.11.6"])
-      s.add_dependency(%q<activerecord>, ["~> 3.0"])
-    end
-  else
-    s.add_dependency(%q<pg>, ["~> 0.11.0"])
-    s.add_dependency(%q<shoulda>, ["~> 2.11.3"])
-    s.add_dependency(%q<rake>, ["~> 0.8.0"])
-    s.add_dependency(%q<ruby-debug19>, ["~> 0.11.6"])
-    s.add_dependency(%q<activerecord>, ["~> 3.0"])
-  end
+  s.name    = 'texticle'
+  s.version = Texticle.version
+
+  s.summary     = 'Texticle exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL'
+  s.description = 'Texticle exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, extending
+    ActiveRecord with scopes making search easy and fun!'
+
+  s.license  = 'MIT'
+  s.authors  = ['Ben Hamill', 'ecin', 'Aaron Patterson']
+  s.email    = ['git-commits@benhamill.com', 'ecin@copypastel.com']
+  s.homepage = 'http://texticle.github.com/texticle'
+
+  s.files         = [
+    'CHANGELOG.rdoc',
+    'Manifest.txt',
+    'README.rdoc',
+    'Rakefile',
+    'lib/texticle.rb',
+    'lib/texticle/searchable.rb',
+    'lib/texticle/rails.rb',
+    'spec/spec_helper.rb',
+    'spec/texticle_spec.rb',
+    'spec/texticle/searchable_spec.rb',
+    'spec/config.yml'
+  ]
+  s.executables   = []
+  s.test_files    = ['spec/spec_helper.rb', 'spec/texticle_spec.rb', 'spec/config.yml']
+  s.require_paths = ['lib']
+
+  s.extra_rdoc_files = ['Manifest.txt', 'CHANGELOG.rdoc', 'README.rdoc']
+  s.rdoc_options     = ['--main', 'README.rdoc']
+
+
+
+  s.add_development_dependency('pg', '~> 0.11.0')
+  s.add_development_dependency('shoulda', '~> 2.11.3')
+  s.add_development_dependency('rake', '~> 0.9.0')
+
+  s.add_dependency('activerecord', '~> 3.0')
 end