EasyFilter

By Peter Kepes

Filter and sort ActiveRecord model for Rails app with Bootstrap view helpers.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'easy_filter', git: 'https://github.com/kepes/easy-filter.git'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install easy_filter

In application.js:

//= require easy_filter

In application.css.scss:

 *= require easy_filter

Gem provide an AciveRecord model addition and a view helper.

Model.easy_filter(params)

EasyFilter works on ActiveRecord::Relation. You can chain with any other module like Kaminari paginator or cancan.

@model = @model.includes(:other_model).easy_filter(params).page params[:page]

<%= easy_filter ModelClass, [:name, :expiry_date] %>

easy_filter view helper will generate a search form for ModelClass with field name and expiry_date. EasyFilter try to determine the correct filed type from type of specified column. For text fields it will generate a normal text field and for date field it will generate a JQuery::DatePicker.

You can define an Array of Hash and EasyFilter will generate a dropdown automaticly.

Code in helper:

def model_statuses
  [
    { value: 'A', text: 'Status A', color: :default},
    { value: 'B', text: 'Status B', color: :info},
    { value: 'C', text: 'Status C', color: :warning},
  ]
end

In view:

<%= easy_filter ModelClass, [:name, :expiry_date, {field: :status, items: model_statuses, label: t(:lable)}] %>

easy_filter model addition provide paramters to define HTML input field names for processing.

def easy_filter(params, prefixes = { main: 'filter_', from: 'from_', to: 'to_', exact: 'exact_', sort: 'sort', direction: 'direction' })

If you change prefix parameters dont't forget to change it for view helpers too!

For sorting you can use easy_sort view helper.

<%= easy_sort :id, t('activerecord.attributes.model.id') %>

Default view helper templates generates Bootstrap components. If you want to use your own templates or just modify templates you should create an app/views/easy_filter folder in your app and create the corresponding view file. Available view files:

app/views/easy_filter/_buttons.html.erb
app/views/easy_filter/_field_datetime.html.erb
app/views/easy_filter/_form_close.html.erb
app/views/easy_filter/_form_field_open.html.erb
app/views/easy_filter/_sort_field.html.erb
app/views/easy_filter/_field_array.html.erb
app/views/easy_filter/_field_text.html.erb
app/views/easy_filter/_form_field_close.html.erb
app/views/easy_filter/_form_open.html.erb

You can configure input field names used by EasyFilter in environments

Rails.application.configure do
  config.easy_filter_defaults = {
    prefixes: { main: 'filter_', from: 'from_', to: 'to_', exact: 'exact_' },
    allowed_params: %w(sort direction),
    sort_params: { field: 'sort', direction: 'direction' }
  }
end

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request