On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:26:04PM +0200, Steven Garcia wrote:
> For clarification purposes, I am trying to return instances from
> multiple models, meaning just one multi_search method for all. I am
> convinced that I am not writing my Search Controller correctly. I am
> trying to use full text search and pagination and have no idea how to
>
> 1. hook into these various models in my controller action
> 2. call up the results in my view
First of all, the full_text_search methods in your model classes won't help
you a thing since you aren't calling them.
What you call is your multi_search call in the search model. So that's
where you have to implement the paging.
However if I were you I'd first try to get this working without
pagination. Once this works, all that's left is to implement pagination
across that set of results.
To deal with having different models in your @results array, build a
helper method to handle this:
module SearchHelper
# might be extended to not only render the name of a record, but a
# link to a details page, too. Always depending of the record's type,
# of course.
def search_result_name(result)
case result
when Term
result.name
when Article
result.title
else
result.to_s
end
end
end
Now use that in your view:
<ul>
<% @results.each do |result| %>
<li><%= search_result_name result %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
For the pagination stuff you'll have to implement the page selection
that is done in the unused full_text_search methods in your search
model, should be easy to adapt since multi_search takes the same options
as find_by_contents.
Jens
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