@@ -35,6 +35,41 @@ This can be empty or nil, in which case all no search conditions are set (and al User.search_for(params[:q]).each { |project| ... } +You can define multiple scopes like so: + + class User < ActiveRecord::Base + searchable_on do + name :name_search + fields :first_name, :last_name + end + + searchable_on do + name :login_search + fields :login, :email + end + + # this is an alternative way to create the login_search + acts_as_scoped_search :login_search, :login, :email + end + +If you'd rather select the columns to search when invoking the named scope, you can do +that with any scoped search, or with the default "scoped_search" scope created by the following: + + class User < ActiveRecord::Base + # Creates a default scope called :scoped_search which searches all fields + # of this model + acts_as_scoped_search + + # you can refer to the default scope in another scope + named_scope :search_text_fields, lambda { |keywords| + self.scoped_search(keywords, :login, :email, :first_name, :last_name) + } + + # or from a function + def search_text_fields_function(keywords) + self.scoped_search(keywords, :login, :email, :first_name, :last_name) + end + end You can also search on associate models. This works with <b>belongs_to</b>, <b>has_one</b>, <b>has_many</b>, <b>has_many :through</b>, and <b>HABTM</b>. For example if a User <b>has_many</b> Notes (title, content, created_at, updated_at) README.rdoc eea01f29d3b36b65c83fe9b10905766810de69fc Robert Sanders robert@esquimaux.org http://github.com/wvanbergen/scoped_search/commit/4b616617fc1aff423f59355ff52ad8173782f523 4b616617fc1aff423f59355ff52ad8173782f523 2009-06-24T22:08:24-07:00 2009-06-24T12:03:48-07:00 updated doc Signed-off-by: Willem van Bergen <willem@vanbergen.org> 040840a4bc6dcd48ce7b019b9298903ef219ed1b Willem van Bergen willem@vanbergen.org