Wildsearcher

Search for records in rails controller or model by specifying fields and a search term.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'wildsearcher'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install wildsearcher

For your rails application, make your url look like http://some.car_website.com?search_fields=year,make,vin&search_term=fancy ford.

This will populate search_term and search_fields in your controller params. Now, filter your records in index action or wherever by calling Car.wildsearcher(params). That's it!

If you are looking for filtering records for a model Car(id: integer, year: integer, make: string, vin: string), you can call Car.filter_records(search_fields: [year, vin], search_term: "20") and it will return expected records.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/vivekbisen/wildsearcher. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.