SearchQd

DESCRIPTION

SearchQd extends ActiveRecord and offers a method called search_qd for a simple full text search. Simple because the search functionality is executed as SQL LIKE statements for given (text) columns.

Quick start

gem install search_qd

• Rails 3

Add the following line to your Gemfile

gem 'search_qd'

• ActiveRecord outside of Rails

require 'search_qd'
ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, SearchQd)

Usage

Assuming your model name is Blog and the model has two text columns title and content:

class Blog < ActiveRecord::Base
  search_qd_columns :title, :content
end

Blog.search_qd("some text to seach for") # search for 'some text to search for' in title and content column
Blog.search_qd("some text to search for", "title") # search for 'some text to search for' in title column
Blog.search_qd("some text to search for", "user_name") # search for 'some text to search for' in user_name column

As shown in the example above the search_qd method expects the search query as a string and a list of columns. If no list of columns is given, the search_qd method uses the column list defined by search_qd_columns (see class Blog definition).

REQUIREMENTS

• ActiveRecord
• Ruby 1.9.*

License

This gem is created by Karsten Gallinowski and released under the MIT License.