Did you watch this one http://railscasts.com/episodes/111-advanced-search-form for a search without plugins, I think it covers well the basics of the subject to let you improve it.
this is the "advanced search form" episode. If you were to find yourself a bit lost, there is a "simple search form one" http://railscasts.com/episodes/37-simple-search-form (those are old episode in rails 1 or rails 2, so there is a little bit of transcription to make, but it should be pretty easy to follow still) On Monday, July 2, 2012 7:46:14 PM UTC+2, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > > > On Jul 2, 2012, at 1:42 PM, sehrguey o. wrote: > > > dear Walter, > > > > thank you for your kind attention and readiness to help. > > > > You talked about my controller and proposed an awesomely nice line: > > > > “ @foos = Foo.where(["bar LIKE '%?%'",params[:q]])” > > > > Unfortunately, it is not enough to get me started because I can't > > imagine where on earth to stick it into my controller that runs as > > follows: > > > > "class DisksController < ApplicationController > > # GET /disks > > # GET /disks.json > > def index > > @disks = Disk.search(params[:search]) > > The preceding line is already what I described. You have defined a > self.search method in your disk.rb file (or else this line wouldn't work). > That seems like you've already got the basics of a search function ready to > go. Can I see the content of disk.rb? > > Walter > > > > > respond_to do |format| > > format.html # index.html.erb > > format.json { render json: @disks } > > end > > end > > > > # GET /disks/1 > > # GET /disks/1.json > > def show > > @disk = Disk.find(params[:id]) > > > > respond_to do |format| > > format.html # show.html.erb > > format.json { render json: @disk } > > end > > end > > > > # GET /disks/new > > # GET /disks/new.json > > def new > > @disk = Disk.new > > > > respond_to do |format| > > format.html # new.html.erb > > format.json { render json: @disk } > > end > > end > > > > # GET /disks/1/edit > > def edit > > @disk = Disk.find(params[:id]) > > end > > > > # POST /disks > > # POST /disks.json > > def create > > @disk = Disk.new(params[:disk]) > > > > respond_to do |format| > > if @disk.save > > format.html { redirect_to @disk, notice: 'Disk was successfully > > created.' } > > format.json { render json: @disk, status: :created, location: > > @disk } > > else > > format.html { render action: "new" } > > format.json { render json: @disk.errors, status: > > :unprocessable_entity } > > end > > end > > end > > > > # PUT /disks/1 > > # PUT /disks/1.json > > def update > > @disk = Disk.find(params[:id]) > > > > respond_to do |format| > > if @disk.update_attributes(params[:disk]) > > format.html { redirect_to @disk, notice: 'Disk was successfully > > updated.' } > > format.json { head :no_content } > > else > > format.html { render action: "edit" } > > format.json { render json: @disk.errors, status: > > :unprocessable_entity } > > end > > end > > end > > > > # DELETE /disks/1 > > # DELETE /disks/1.json > > def destroy > > @disk = Disk.find(params[:id]) > > @disk.destroy > > > > respond_to do |format| > > format.html { redirect_to disks_url } > > format.json { head :no_content } > > end > > end > > end" > > > > yours` > > sehrguey > > > > -- > > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en-US. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/_EBdO4fEOO4J. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en-US.
