Demo application for rails-simple-search¶ ↑

(Note: for Rails 7 or above projects, please reference rails-simple-search demo at here: github.com/yzhanginwa/rails_simple_search_demo)

This is a rails application. Its purpose is to demo the simplicity and power of gem rails-simple-search.

You can download it and run “bundle; rake db:migrate; rails s” immediately. It’s tested under Ruby 2.3.1 and Rails 4.2.6.

In this demo, I tried to search for a user by part of her name, her post titles, her comments, her address, her city, her state and so on.

The following is the code related to the search:

1. In file “Gemfile”

...
gem 'rails-simple-search'  # to use 1.1.1 or above
...

1. In file “app/model”Search“

class Search < RailsSimpleSearch::Base
end

1. In file “config/route.rb”

...
match '/users/index', :controller => 'users', :action => "index"
...

1. In file “app/controllers/users_controllers”

...
@search = Search.new(:user, params[:search], exact_match: :first_name)
@users = @search.run.paginate(page: params[:page], per_page: 20).order(:first_name)
...

1. In file “app/views/users/index.html.erb”

...
<%= form_for @search, :url => "/users/index" do |f| %>
  <%= f.label "First Name" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'first_name' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Last Name" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'last_name' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Address1" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'address.address1' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "City" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'address.city' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Post title" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'posts.title' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Post body" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'posts.body' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Comment" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'comments.body' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.submit "search" %>
<% end %>
...

For more info about rails-simple-search, please see “github.com/yzhanginwa/rails-simple-search”.