SearchQd

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.

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)

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

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).

• ActiveRecord
• Ruby 1.9.*

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