Comments on: RESTful searching in Rails

By: Latest Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com at Ivan Enviroman

Latest Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com at Ivan Enviroman — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:02:50 +0000

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By: Dan Manges

Dan Manges — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:06:42 +0000

+1 on moving the search logic to the model. For what it’s worth, you don’t need to wrap the params in an h call when passing to the form helpers.

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RESTful Searching in Rails — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:20:59 +0000

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By: Adam Meehan

Adam Meehan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:31:41 +0000

I think Alex is right, that it was the query params that threw people. I continued doing it the same way as you have done it, but read enough posts about ‘the RESTful search problem’ I started doubt myself.

There are few solutions out there, but I found the criteria_query plugin (http://www.muermann.org/ruby/criteria_query/) good for building model find conditions from form params like your example.

By: Jonathan Tron

Jonathan Tron — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:06:41 +0000

I second Ryan Bates about moving search logic in the model, anyway I found pretty useful to use an OpenStruct initialized with the search params :

@search = OpenStruct.new(params[:search])

Then in your view you can use the different FormHelper methods on the @search object.
If at any time you need/want to store queries (to speedup app, for later reuse or for statistics) you can easily swap your OpenStruct with your model.